Iran endgame: Trump finds an exit ramp from Gulf war, but at what cost?

It is also unclear if the final deal will be an improvement on the one former President Barack Obama reached with Iran in 2015 to rein in its nuclear program, and which Trump scrapped in 2018 during his first term

US President Donald Trump gestures as he attends UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 15, 2026.Reuters

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With an agreement on a framework for a peace deal with Iran, US President Donald Trump may have found a way to begin extricating himself from an unpopular war while setting global markets on a path toward easing energy prices that have spiked during the crisis.

But he has settled for a deal that appears short of many of the goals he outlined in the early days of the conflict, potentially opening himself up to attacks from hawks in his own party and leaving the US looking strategically worse off than it did before he went to war.