War, talks, repeat: How to break the cycle between US and Iran?

France 24 takes up a question that keeps returning: how to break the cycle of war and talks between Washington and Tehran. As the program frames it, the war the United States and Israel launched on February twenty-eighth killed Iran's Supreme Leader on its opening day, and ordinary Iranians are far worse off for it. Yet France 24 reports the Islamic Republic has since found unexpected leverage in the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping channel for much of the world's oil, and is betting that Donald Trump's threats of invasion are empty.

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