Julian Borger
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Today in Focus · US and Iran exchange strikes: is Trump’s peace deal over? - The Latest · 9 Jul 2026
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It was an odd kind of language.
But obviously shooting at ships doesn't really fit under that.
And it's worth remembering that in Iran, there are a lot of factions, groups involved.
power centers who are very much against this whole agreement.
So there are spoilers in there.
But yes, it is hazy.
There are implications that Iran does have a claim to have some kind of control.
It's not supposed to make any charges or tolls for 60 days, but it is given the opportunity to discuss with Oman and other countries
states in the region what the future of the strait should be, which implies some kind of ownership.
Well...
It's clear that Trump is trying to sort of escalate out of this.
It was about 80 strikes on the first night and then 90.
And he's threatened, oh, this is only going to get worse.
And this is how he approaches these kind of situations, trying to escalate out.
And then, as we've seen before, climb back down.
And I think it's likely...
Both major parties in this situation don't want a return to a full scale war.
US because of all the economic ripple effects from that and the approach of elections and Iran because it's only just getting some relief after that.
months of war and years of sanctions.
And it was getting some sanctions relief on its oil exports.
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