US and Iran step back from brink, in fragile truce
by editors@theworld.org (Joyce Hackel) from The World: Latest Stories on (#74T74)
The twoweek ceasefire, brokered just hours before US President Donald Trump's threat of total annihilation" was set to take effect, remains highly tentative. Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, tells The World's Host Carolyn Beeler that Tehran now understands it can wield control over the Strait of Hormuz as a potent weapon of mass disruption."