Pray Trump means it this time when he says the Iran cease-fire is over

Pray that President Donald Trump means it this time when he says the Iran cease-fire is “over.” And that he isn’t as desperate to return to it as it appears.Because so far, Iran has only jerked us around, without giving the faintest hint it’ll ever agree to any US demands.“I think we wasted a lot of time,” huffed Trump on Wednesday, after ordering renewed strikes on Iran in response to its attacks on three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.Uh, no kidding!“We should just do our business,” he added.“I don’t want to deal with them anymore.

They’re scum.”Frankly, Trump should’ve never agreed to a cease-fire deal in the first place — certainly not one that made generous concessions to Iran, as this one did, while getting virtually bupkis in return.For starters, it’s never been clear how much power Iran’s negotiators actually hold, whether they’ll ever budge on US demands — or, most troublingly, whether they’d stick to deal they ultimately agree to.Indeed, the fact that Iran has failed to honor even the generous terms of the cease-fire leaves little hope it would honor any permanent deal.Instead, it’s given every reason to think it won’t.The Strait of Hormuz, recall, was supposed to be 100% open, and hostilities were to end — yet Iran insists it controls the Strait and enforces that with attacks.It’s launched repeated strikes, ever since the parties signed the Memorandum of Understanding in June.Worse, satellite imagery shows Iran conducting construction projects at the Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility, another alarming violation of the agreement.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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And the ruling powers have made their intentions beyond clear in words as well as deeds: Iran’s Assembly of Experts, for example, officially called for T...