Everything Points to August
Trump shelves the strike, talks resume. Hormuz is on the table. Iraq's northern route is signed. Senate window to Aug 10. Iraqi analysts circle Aug 15.
Monday, August 3. The United States and Iran sit back down at the table today. That is not how last week was supposed to end. On Sunday the White House account posted a statement from President Trump that has now been seen more than 2.3 million times:
"The U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II. Despite this, we have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to. This would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT..."
Read the perimeter again. The immediate, complete and total opening of the waterway that normally carries about 20 percent of the world's oil, shut since the war's opening weeks. The strike Trump shelved was described as the largest planned since World War 2. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Iran itself asked him to hold, and the outline of a deal was on the table. Tehran, for its part, is working every channel it has left: Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says talks with Oman on a new Hormuz shipping route are in their final stages, and he spent Sunday on the phone with his Saudi counterpart. Talks with Washington resumed today with no deadline attached.
That post alone would make the week. It is nowhere near the whole story. Across the same 48 hours, Iraq signed its crude past Iran's chokepoint, Baghdad ordered its own soil policed, the American withdrawal ran ahead of its deadline, and the date Iraqi analysts keep circling acquired a number: August 15. Each of these stories carries its own calendar. This month, for the first time since the war started, the calendars agree.
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