It’s possible that his host, French President Emanuel Macron, thought the opulent Hall of Mirrors would appeal to his visitor and wanted to ensure the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed before Trump changed his mind.
However, the location decision unavoidably led to comparisons between the extraordinarily long Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919 at the close of World War One, and the one-and-a-half-page document. The 1919 pact changed the course of European history, but its demands for enormous reparations infuriated Germany and contributed to the outbreak of another world war only 20 years later.
Even if the Iran deal is so different, might it yet be viewed as equally fateful?
A precarious ceasefire essentially lasts for over three weeks. However, the situation in the Middle East appears to be just as unstable as it was previously due to multiple confrontations in and around the Strait of Hormuz and the fact that none of the problems that sparked the conflict have been resolved.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the nation’s former supreme leader, was killed more than four months ago in the catastrophic joint US-Israeli airstrikes that started the conflict and decapitated a large portion of the Tehrani leadership.
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