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Initial analyses once again speak of "TACO" Trump: Trump backs down again.
AP
The USA and Iran agree on a ten-point plan to end the war. The details are still unclear. But the consensus is that the deal should reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
On Wednesday night, the USA and Iran agreed on a ten-point plan. The agreement forms the basis for a two-week ceasefire, which should allow shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz again.
Initial information is available and has been disseminated by news agencies close to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. However, the full details of the plan have not yet been published, so the reports cannot be verified.
However, according to consistent reports from Iranian and American media, the plan contains demands for an end to the fighting in several countries in the region, the lifting of Western sanctions and the release of frozen Iranian assets. Iran is also said to have agreed to renounce nuclear weapons.
However, other sources - including the Iranian agency Fars - report that Tehran is likely to continue enriching uranium. These contradictory statements show that the agreement has not yet been conclusively clarified.
US President Donald Trump spoke of a "workable basis for negotiations". He praised his strategy of maximum pressure and expressed his expectation that there could be a "golden age of the Middle East". Previously, Trump had openly threatened a possible genocide of the Iranian people.
Media in Washington report that Trump is said to have accepted the Iranian ten-point plan, although key points of contention - such as the nuclear program - remain unresolved. Initial analyses are therefore once again talking about "TACO" Trump, which stands for Trump always chickens out. This can be roughly translated as: Trump always gives in.
Experts take a much more critical view of the agreement. Several international observers see the move as an attempt by Trump to withdraw from a war that is becoming increasingly unpopular both militarily and politically. British columnist Owen Jones called the agreement "the biggest strategic defeat the US has suffered since its rise to superpower status".
Opposition quickly came from the Republican camp. Steven Cheung, White House Communications Director, attacked Jones personally on the Truth Social platform. Senator Lindsey Graham was also skeptical: he called for all highly enriched uranium to be removed from Iran and for the ten-point plan to be submitted to Congress for a vote.
