Barely ten hours after threatening to erase Iran’s “whole civilization,” President Donald Trump on Tuesday night backed off and said he was postponing for two weeks plans to bombard its power and transportation infrastructure.
It looks like a fragile, temporary ceasefire is on. The threat of a massive escalation is off – for now. But the question of when and how the war will end is still an open one. The two sides remain far apart on critical issues, notably Iran’s nuclear activities, which were theoretically central to the case for war. Tehran says
