The framework agreement reportedly reached between the United States and Iran remains, for now, more an exercise in hope than a fully articulated diplomatic breakthrough. The broad contours alone are known: an immediate 60-day ceasefire and a commitment to negotiate a more durable peace during that period. Beyond these skeletal details lies a vast expanse of uncertainty. Yet, in a region battered by conflict and brinkmanship, even the silencing of guns deserves acknowledgement. President Donald Trump has already celebrated the reported reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the resumption of oil flows from West Asia as a personal triumph. But Trump has often displayed a tendency to claim victory before the facts warrant it. Prudence demands that the world........

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