Paris – U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly declared that Iran and the U.S. are on the verge of agreeing to a deal to end the Middle East war, but a litany of sticking points have delayed finalizing an accord and will complicate its implementation, analysts say.
Trump has been widely mocked in U.S. and Iran for frequently insisting an end to the conflict was imminent even as negotiations dragged on for weeks, with U.S. network CNN saying he had used phrases like “very close to a deal” or in the “final throes” of talks on 39 occasions.
In what has become a familiar pattern, Trump on Thursday withdrew a threat of renewed strikes on Iran and said a deal could be signed in the coming days, only for the Islamic republic’s foreign ministry to respond by saying it “has not reached a final conclusion on the agreement.”
