The still-mysterious Iran deal leaves a LOT of work undone at best

Aside from the vast damage the war did to Iran’s military assets and the deaths of so many of the ruling cabal, this Memorandum of Understanding seems to leave things right back where they were before the bombs started dropping.That is: Tehran hasn’t actually agreed to give up its nuclear program or its support of terror groups like Hezbollah and Hamas — but only to talk about it all some more.Maybe the full MOU text makes things look better ..

.or worse: The fact that it’s still a mystery isn’t encouraging.When does the world get to see it?If the Strait of Hormuz really opens, it’ll do one good thing — but the planned 60 days of talks could still yield a serious win for Tehran.The White House says those negotiations will settle the details of Iran destroying its enriched uranium, ending its nuclear program forever and its terror funding too, but what if they don’t?And what might US diplomats give away along the way?The last few months have proved that Iran’s rulers are more willing to take far more pain (or to have their citizenry suffer, at least) than America’s leaders (ahead of the midterms, at least).That’s a huge edge for Tehran in the negotiations.Plus, the Iranians are masters at drawing out talks, steering them into ridiculous side issues, reversing concessions they’d supposedly committed to, adding new demands at the last minute and so on.Per some reports, they pulled that last trick Sunday, as the Americans wanted to announce a deal on President Donald Trump’s birthday.Iran says it won US recognition of Iranian-Omani sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, an enormous coup as it means accepting the tolls that Trump has rightly called unacceptable.Maybe that’s pure propaganda — but we have nothing more to go on without the full MOU text.At the least, Iran remains positioned to close the Strait again whenever it likes, and certainly to threaten the move regularly all through the talks.Trump wasn’t willing to force a Hormuz o...