“This agreement would reward Iranian intransigence”: between Washington and Tehran, a bad peace would prepare for the next war

Iranian news has gotten into the habit of crushing the G7 summits organized by France. In 2019, in Biarritz, the meeting of the Seven was taken over by the surprise visit of the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, invited by Emmanuel Macron, who was trying to relaunch the dialogue between the Tehran regime and Donald Trump. The Evian summit was also preempted, even before its opening, by the war in Iran and the hope, for Donald Trump, of signing a memorandum of understanding with Tehran on his birthday – he turned 80 Sunday.

Many will welcome a renewed ceasefire with a promise of negotiations, which will end the war and relieve pressure on the oil market. Some, like the expert at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv Danny Citrinowicz, consider it a « mal nécessaire »which formalizes the failure of the military option to achieve its key objectives. « This agreement…