Iran's New Stall: End the War, Open the Strait, Nukes ... TBD

<![CDATA[Events at the White House Correspondents Dinner overtook developments in the war over the last 36 hours or so, at least in the US. In Tehran, however, Donald Trump's abrupt cancellation of the trip to Islamabad by Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner clearly dominated the thinking of those in the regime. Ahmad Vahidi may not want to publicly acknowledge that the US and Israel have defeated his IRGC, but he also understands what another round of shock-and-awe military operations will do to his regime.]]>