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Donald Trump is prayed over with pastor Paula White during the National Faith Summit at Worship With Wonders Church in October 2024, in Powder Springs, Ga., a few weeks before he was elected president a second time. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Donald Trump’s dilemma: Ending the Iran war to appease Americans will anger his evangelical base

If Donald Trump decides to escalate the Iran war, Christian Zionists will be those cheering the loudest.
Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, seated at left, looks to Lebanon’s ambassador to the U.S., Nada Hamadeh, seated at right, while speaking at a signing of a framework agreement between the countries. AP Photo/Kevin Wolf

Israel and Lebanon have a long history of failed ceasefires – will this time be any different?

In past agreements, there appeared to be a tacit understanding between Hezbollah and Israel that conflict would eventually resume.
Donald Trump has said the ceasefire between the US and Iran is ‘over’ after both countries exchanged strikes, adding ‘I don’t want to deal with them anymore’. Filip Singer / EPA

Iran ceasefire was always going to break – here’s why

The US and Iran have once again traded strikes, prompting Donald Trump to declare the ceasefire between them ‘over’.
US president, Donald Trump, returns to Washington in his limousine, ‘The Beast’, after signing the memorandum of understanding, June 21 2026. Samuel Corum/Sipa USA/Alamy Live News

The flaws at the heart of Donald Trump’s Iran ceasefire deal

Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz and Israel’s right to defend itself against Hezbollah’s rocket attacks have boxed the US president into a corner.
US vice-president, J.D. Vance (l), with Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif (c), and Qatari prime minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani (r), and negotiating teams at the Buergenstock resort in Obbuergen for talks to end the conflict in Iran. EPA/Urs Flueeler/pool

Will the US‑Iran talks in Switzerland deliver peace? It’s unlikely

There may be a pause in hostilities, but a long-term settlement is still a long way off.
People ride motorcycles past a large billboard in central Tehran on June 8, 2026. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s US‑Iran ceasefire deal is a costly return to prewar conditions – and resolving nuclear questions will run into the ‘indivisibility problem’

Iran has emerged with its uranium enrichment knowledge intact, its stockpile buried and fresh reason to believe that only a nuclear weapon would have deterred the US-Israel attack.

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