JD Vance says US-Iran deal ‘very general’ with many details yet to be negotiated – Middle East crisis live
The US vice-president also said nuclear inspectors would return to Iran as part of the deal with Washington to end the war
The Guardian's international security correspondent, Jason Burke, has written an interesting piece of analysis about how the interim US-Iran deal doesn't address any of the region's deeper issues, leaving analysts predicting instability and war could soon return. Here is an extract from his article:
The interim deal now agreed does little more than commit both sides to further talks, while obliging Washington to lift its naval blockade of Iran and making Tehran allow free passage to all shipping in the strait of Hormuz, which usually carries a fifth of the world's oil and liquid gas supplies but was blocked by Iran early in the war.
To the great displeasure of Israel, a ceasefire has been imposed once again in Lebanon as part of the interim deal and appears for the moment to be holding.
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