US Quietly Abandons Hope for Nuclear Deal With Iran

🏛️ WASHINGTON — No deal expected, but the bombs keep falling. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Nuclear deal was the stated justification for US strikes — without it, CENTCOM has no political off-ramp to offer Tehran. Administration pessimism fractures the Ankara-Doha track: both mediated toward a deal Washington no longer expects. If the nuclear goal is quietly abandoned, the war contracts to pure attrition — and Iran's incentive to concede anything disappears.