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2 months ago General
Surprise! A stroke of a pen over dinner at Versailles pre-empting plans for that big Friday signing in Switzerland of an interim agreement between the United States and Iran. Coming off the G-Seven in France, we’ll ask why Donald Trump suddenly decided to get it over with and whether the region and the world can breathe a sigh of relief.Oil markets certainly believe. They're again down as the Strait of Hormuz gets set to reopen. But… it’s only a 60-day memorandum of understanding and while Gulf neighbors will cheer the lifting of the blockade on what’s the world’s biggest maritime choke point for oil and gas, we’ll take a second look at the agreement brokered by Pakistan and Qatar, most notably, including in the deal a cessation of fighting in Lebanon. What happens if Israel or Hezbollah don’t like the way negotiations unfold? Would Washington and Tehran be able to rein them in? How does the U-S president’s plan compare with the 2015 U-N nuclear agreement that he constantly belittles? Are we headed for closure or a whole new level of uncertainty?
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