Today marks a hundred days since America and Israel began launching strikes on Iran on 28 February. The very next day, Donald Trump told the Atlantic that Iran’s leaders ‘want to talk’, saying they should have made a deal sooner and that ‘they played too cute’.

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Three days after Trump said this, Iran announced that the Strait of Hormuz was closed. Since then, we have been told dozens of times that we are on the brink of a lasting deal between Iran and America, often in the President’s statements on Truth Social. At the end of last month, Axios reported that US and Iranian negotiators had reached an agreement on a 60-day memorandum which would reopen the Strait, which simply needed Trump’s sign off.

Since then, the temporary ceasefire which was announced on 8 April has been broken, with Iran and Israel firing volleys of........

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