cease-fire?!

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The ferocity of the Fourth Iran War imposed a regional and global dream for the war to stop in order to catch a breath and look for a quiet opportunity to search for some settlement. The pressure was not small, as we mentioned above, especially from the internal fronts of both parties - the American and the Iranian - where the biting of fingers was bitter in its pain, whether it was for President Trump, who is awaiting the midterm elections for both houses of Congress; Or the new general guide, Mojtaba Khamenei, who emerged from under the rubble of the first bomb of the war, but returned again to lead a nation divided between moderates who want to negotiate, and hard-line radicals from the Revolutionary Guard. In truth, there was no shortage of people looking for a truce, even if it was temporary, which might provide a window to stop the fighting. The quartet consisting of Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, from time to time, did not stop trying. The result, after a lot of effort, was that the Quartet succeeded, on June 18, 2026, in obtaining an Islamabad declaration of a truce between the two parties for a period of 60 days, to be renewed by both parties.

What actually happened was that the renewal did not happen because it was simply that the war did not stop. There was a kind of relative calm, but the game was between Iran’s ability to stop the blockade of the “Strait of Hormuz”; The United States was able to stop blockading Iranian ports, strangling the means of supply and provision through Iranian ports. The guns did not completely fall silent, but rather continued to take different forms, accompanied by threats and warnings that the war would resume sooner or later. Iranian aggression against the Arab Gulf states has not stopped; Israel's war with Hezbollah on the Lebanese front raised the question whether the war on other fronts falls within the framework of the "truce" or is it outside it? There were disputes over the interpretation of the compatibility of international law with the conditions of fourteen clauses in the Islamabad document. The fighting resumed before it stopped!