On Call Me Back, Walter Russell Mead discusses the paradox at the heart of the new memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran, what it reveals about President Donald Trump’s approach to power, and how leaders across the Middle East are recalculating their assumptions about America, Israel, and the region’s future.
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155 shell bodies sit on a pallet at General Dynamics ready to be shipped on August 20, 2025, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. (Getty Images)