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UPDATE: US AND ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN – June 24, 2026

The Buergenstock talks were meant to chart a path out of war. Yet only days after the memorandum was signed, Washington and Tehran are already presenting fundamentally different versions of what was agreed. Nuclear inspections, frozen Iranian assets, the future management of regional shipping and Iran’s missile programme remain disputed in four crucial areas. At the same time, the ceasefire in southern Lebanon is eroding, Donald Trump is again threatening Iran with military force, and the US Congress is challenging the president’s unauthorized conduct of the war. This update reconstructs what was actually decided in Switzerland - and why the emerging peace process already rests on a signed disagreement.

UPDATE – US AND ISRAEL ATTACK IRAN – May 20, 2026

Trump says he was “one hour” away from launching a new large-scale strike on Iran - then called it off. Not because the crisis was resolved, but after appeals from Gulf leaders and under the continued threat of renewed attacks. As Tehran repeats its core demands, Washington counters with terms close to surrender, and the US Senate shows its first visible cracks over the war, another case moves to the center: the US strike on the Minab girls’ school. This update traces a week in which the war did not fully escalate - but the underlying power structures became clearer: in Washington, in Beijing, in Lebanon, and in the unresolved shadow of a strike whose investigation may reveal more than a single operational failure.