Islamabad, Pakistan —
With peace talks stalled and US President Donald Trump offering no timeline for ending the war with Iran, the question on everyone’s lips is, who can withstand the pain inflicted by this war the longest? There is growing evidence that it’s Iran.
With no imminent threat of a return to a punishing bombing campaign, Iran is achieving its central war aim of driving up the price of oil, and with it pressuring Trump to accede to some of its demands.
For his part, Trump doesn’t acknowledge any disadvantage. “I have all the time in the World, but Iran doesn’t — The clock is ticking!” he wrote Thursday on social media. “Time is not on their side!”