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As he tries to hammer out a peace deal with Iran, President Trump has a dovish adviser in Vice President Vance perched on one figurative shoulder — and a hawkish Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the other. Why it matters: The success of the talks — and therefore the health of global oil markets — greatly depends on how well Trump deploys each man to balance competing interests in Iran, Israel and Lebanon.
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"Think of Marco and JD as aspects of the president's personality and policy," a top Trump adviser told Axios. "There's a more pro-Israel aspect of it, and that's Rubio. And there's a more Israel-skeptic aspect. That's JD."

U.S. CAUGHT IN ‘ESCALATION TRAP’: IRAN NOT DETERRED FROM FIGHTING BACK | Prof. Robert Pape
Jun 29, 2026 - • Exchange of fire: The US and Iran will “stand down for now,” and talks remain “on track”, two US officials have said, after both sides traded fire near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s position is on the matter is currently unclear. The recent military action tested an initial agreement that was supposed to halt hostilities during 60 days of negotiations. • Strait of Hormuz: Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains a fraction of pre-war levels, data shows, with different authorities vying to organize the transit of vessels, leaving operators with a difficult choice over which path to take. Iran’s foreign minister has said the waterway will remain under Tehran’s “exclusive management.”

Are we heading
back to war?
John Mearsheimer
& Doug Bandow
Jun 28, 2026 - Two weeks into a cease-fire agreement aimed at leading to a broader peace agreement, Iran and the United States once again engaged in hostilities on Sunday, with the Iranian foreign minister declaring that his country alone had the authority to manage commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said that it had targeted a U.S. naval base in Bahrain and the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait with drones and missiles in retaliation for American attacks.

US-Iran MoU at risk as
Hormuz skirmishes test diplomacy:
Ex-US ambassador
Jun 27, 2026 - A tanker reported being struck by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, Britain's maritime security agency said, after the United States and Iran each launched strikes in the worst escalation since they signed an interim peace deal.
The warring sides each accused the other of violating the agreement reached two weeks ago to end the four-month-old conflict. Washington said it hit Iranian targets overnight, while Iran said it had struck targets linked to U.S. forces on Saturday in response.
Saturday's attack on a tanker in the strait followed another on a cargo ship on Thursday that triggered the latest escalation.






