The US-Iran Deal Just Collapsed — And Nobody Knows Who in Tehran Can Sign the Next One
President Trump declared the interim accord to end the US-Iran war 'over' after Iran struck American military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait. But the deeper problem isn't the collapse of this deal — it's that Iran may no longer have a leader with the authority to enforce any deal. Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has been missing since a March 30 airstrike, and every ceasefire since has been negotiated into that vacuum.
Bottom Line
The interim accord is dead, but the real story is why it died: you can't enforce a peace deal with a government that may not know who's in charge. Until Iran's leadership question is resolved — Mojtaba Khamenei's fate has been unconfirmed for over three months — every ceasefire is built on sand, and every strike on Gulf soil pulls more countries into the war's orbit.