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Trump is celebrating the Iran deal. The headlines are counting his failures

Did anyone defend the US-Iran deal? Yes, US Vice President JD Vance. It fell to him to meet the press.

Deal or no deal? No big deal, as far as much of the world’s news media is concerned.

In fact, they see it as a failure for US President Donald Trump, since he could not achieve the goals he had outlined when the war with Iran started on 28 February.

However, the Memorandum of Understanding reached by Washington and Tehran on 14 June excited Trump no end. As it perhaps ought to: for weeks, he has been telling the world through media interviews and Truth Social posts that the deal was done—only it wasn’t.

On Sunday, he celebrated on Truth Social: “Let the oil flow”. His post announced the agreement that potentially ends the US-Israel-Iran war.

In the American and international media, the declaration excited mostly skepticism and some derision. One US news portal, thebulwark.com, went so far as to describe it in scatological terms, but we won’t go there.

More respectable and respected news organisations weren’t always polite either. Look at some of the headlines from the world press:

‘President Trump Lost This War,’ wrote The News York Times in its editorial.

‘Trump’s Iran deal is a national humiliation,’ stated the Canadian Globe and Mail.

‘Iran deal is tacit admission of strategic defeat by Trump administration,’ wrote Sky News (UK).

‘Trump Does Not Understand the War He Lost,’ was The Atlantic’s (US) take.

The Wall Street Journal (US) editorial headline read, ‘Trump Stages an Iran Retreat’, while Financial Times (UK) wrote, ‘Donald Trump settles for a truce of convenience with Iran.’

The Guardian (UK) summed up its opinion of the deal in six little words: ‘a pause is not a triumph’. The editorial called it ‘a failed war of choice’ for US and........

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