Here’s What’s Holding Trump Back From Making a Deal With Iran

War Stories By Fred Kaplan Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Fred Kaplan? Aug 10, 20263:13 PM Eric Lee/Getty Images Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Iran’s latest demands in the diplomatic quarrel over the Strait of Hormuz may seem excessive—Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said they “could never be an acceptable condition of any deal”—but in fact they were part of the deal that President Donald Trump agreed to two months ago. The proposal, issued Saturday by the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, stated