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Trump, Tehran and truth gap: US-Iran talk bluff or breakdown

The United States has spent the decades since as the inheritor of Britain's imperial mantle. In the Middle East, that posture has rarely been questioned. But it is being questioned now, and the interrogation is arriving from an unexpected direction. The US, Israel-Iran war is now entering its fourth week, a Strait of Hormuz blockade that has sent oil markets into their worst crisis since the 1970s, and a Truth Social post that may, in retrospect, come to mark an inflection point as consequential as the moment British troops boarded their ships home from Port Said.