The world is about to exhale. The terms of the deal are out, and they read like relief. A 60-day truce. The Strait of Hormuz reopened, the mines cleared, no tolls. Iran free to sell its oil again under sanctions waivers. The fighting with Hezbollah ended. Oil prices easing, the markets calming, the war sliding off the front page. Trump says it is largely negotiated and nearly done. A gunman at a White House checkpoint interrupted the announcement on Saturday, briefly, and then even that passed. Everything, at last, returning to normal.

That is exactly the problem

Because while the world watches the lights come back on, one question goes unasked. What did Iran actually want from this deal. Not the oil, not the sanctions relief, welcome as those are to a battered economy. Look at what Iran kept and what it gave away, and the answer writes itself.

A good deal was never hard to define. Iran surrenders its enriched uranium and it leaves the country. Enrichment ends. The strait is freed for good. The missiles are curbed. That........

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