“When the United States first struck Iran, the president said the war would last mere weeks,” the Washington Post reports.
”Five months later, ceasefires have come and gone, and strikes stopped and restarted. Gas prices have shot up as the Strait of Hormuz, a key passage for oil tankers, kept reopening and closing. The Trump administration tried to broker another deal in June, but it fell apart this month, and attacks began anew.”
”The protracted conflict has given some voters whiplash trying to keep up with each turn.”
