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A damning Wall Street Journal report depicts US President Donald Trump as making key decisions about the war in Iran in a slapdash manner without input from his advisers, stating he was eager for a ceasefire to address rising fuel prices.

As the ostensible end of the two-week ceasefire with Iran looms, Berman assesses five points of apparent failure on the part of the joint US and Israel conflict with Iran, including the focus on the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s new position there; the percentage of missiles still available to Iran; the current strength of Iran’s proxies; the uptick of Iranian-linked terror abroad and the status of the Iranian nuclear program.

We then turn our gaze to the Lebanon front, where Hezbollah was granted a reprieve from the conflict with Trump’s imposed ceasefire. What are Israel’s concerns — even as this could be an opportunity for direct talks between Lebanese and Israeli leadership?

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