Iran is on A Dangerous Limbo, No Peace and at The Edge of War
In Tehran on Monday, a billboard featuring the Iran theocracy’s first two supreme leaders loomed over passers-by. Credit...Arash Khamooshi/Polaris for The New York Times By Mark Landler and Anton Troianovski Mark Landler reported from Paris, and Anton Troianovski from Washington New York Times Leer en español In just the past five days, the United States and Iran traded missile strikes after the downing of an American helicopter; Israel bombarded Lebanon, drawing retaliation from Iran; and the Iran-backed Houthis joined the reprisal from Yemen. Then in a matter of hours on Thursday, President Trump called off another major attack on Iran and again held out the prospect of a peace accord, which Iran downplayed. In the two months since the U.S. and Iran nominally declared a cease-fire, the line between peace and war has been all but erased across the Middle East, with attacks and counterattacks alongside promises to end the hostilities that never qui...
