Looming fears of a forever war
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- (This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts.
- To get the newsletter in your inbox every Monday, subscribe here.) Three months after Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched the war on Iran, Mr. Trump is still negotiating a temporary ceasefire extension and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for economic concessions to Tehran.
- A deal is yet to be reached.
- Considering their originally stated aims of regime change in Tehran, the dismantling of Iran’s missile and nuclear programmes and the curbing of its support for regional non-state allies as their major objectives, it is clear that this war has gone rather badly for Washington, as The Hindu’s editorial today points out.
- “Mr. Trump’s military campaign has failed to achieve any of its declared objectives.
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Key Takeaways
- (This article is part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts.
- Trump is still negotiating a temporary ceasefire extension and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for economic concessions to Tehran.
- A deal is yet to be reached.
- Considering their originally stated aims of regime change in Tehran, the dismantling of Iran’s missile and nuclear programmes and the curbing of its support for regional non-state allies as their major objectives, it is clear that this war has gone rather badly for Washington, as The Hindu’s editorial today points out.
- Trump’s military campaign has failed to achieve any of its declared objectives.
📌 Source: The Hindu
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