The Financial Times calls the US-Iran deal a “truce of convenience”. A week into the US war against Iran, Donald Trump promised “unconditional surrender”, but now he is presenting a deal that gives more leverage to the Islamic Republic. The paper quotes Dan Shapiro, a former senior US official, who calls it “a very weak deal for the US”. The Wall Street Journal outlines the main issues to watch to see if the deal is for real:

• The Strait of Hormuz – will it actually reopen? A lot of things could happen between now and Friday;
• The US naval blockade on Iranian ships – if lifted, Iran might be more likely to negotiate on other issues;
• Israel: “Will it give the US and Iran the space to continue talking?”

When it comes to Iran, The Guardian writes about the anger among some hardliners there. The paper says that the deal does not guarantee sanctions relief, compensation or control of the Strait of Hormuz. Responding to the hardliners, an adviser to the negotiating team says that Tehran has not been required to make any new commitments on its nuclear programme, for instance. 

Right-wing paper Israel Hayom says that “Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation” – that’s actually a 2020 Trump quote. The opinion piece says that “any deal with Iran is worse than the alternatives, because it establishes the legitimacy of the extremist regime”. The outcome makes the Trump administration a “laughing stock”. The headline of an analysis in left-wing paper Haaretz reads “Humiliated by Trump on the Iran front, Netanyahu may set the Middle East ablaze”. The article says that the terms of the deal will unlikely match “Netanyahu’s promises to crush” Iran. But with Israeli elections set for October, the prime minister will have to face his own promises. The analysis says that he seems eager to take out his “desperation” on Trump, Tehran and the wider Middle East.

The announcement of the deal was a welcome surprise for Trump, who turned 80 on Sunday. The New York Times describes him as a president who’s “really uncomfortable with aging”, as he faces growing scrutiny over his age. According to a poll, nearly six in 10 Americans think that Trump is growing more erratic. Every time Trump doesn’t appear live for some time, people speculate that he might have died. But for now, he is alive and very healthy, Karoline Leavitt reassures us. He received many birthday wishes, some mocking, some friendly, including from Jimmy Kimmel and Piers Morgan.

Finally, actress Gwyneth Paltrow has starred in a luxury Israeli real estate ad that’s gone viral for all the wrong reasons. The Times calls it a PR disaster. The advert went viral over the weekend and people have nicknamed it “Gwynocide”. Paltrow is backing one of Israel‘s tallest residential developments in Herzliya – the real estate company that owns it also owns a shopping mall in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. Paltrow is actually among the most prominent pro-Israel celebrities in Hollywood, The Times explains. People online and some Hollywood stars call her detached from reality, nasty or simply stupid… and many are now saying she needs to be cancelled. 

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