Trump’s Iran Ceasefire Was Built to Fail

Donald Trump says Iran’s leaders are “vicious,” “evil,” lying “scum.” Perhaps they are, but that is not the root cause of his predicament in the Strait of Hormuz, where the US president now says the ceasefire is over and further diplomacy would be a waste of time. His troubles — and therefore those of America’s Gulf allies and the global economy writ large — stem from his own falsehoods.