Making Truce a Durable Peace

Tel Aviv and Tehran should trust in diplomacy and negotiate a settlement. War hurts everyone

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President Donald Trump's truce deal has moved past the initial communication hiccups and appears set to survive the mutual mistrust between Israel and Iran. Both the nations have indicated that they are willing to turn the truce into a lasting peace agreement. Late Tuesday, Tel Aviv lifted emergency restrictions imposed during the conflict and Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian hailed "the end of a 12-day war that was imposed on the Iranian people". Pezeshkian also expressed a willingness to return to nuclear talks with the U.S. The three parties in the conflict—Israel, the Trump administration, and Iran—have spun their own narratives about the outcome of the war for their respective domestic audiences: Tel Aviv and Trump have said that the U.S. attack destroyed Iran's n