In the two months since U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to a ceasefire with Iran after initiating a joint offensive with Israel against the Islamist regime on Feb. 28, the whole world has been wondering what he is going to do next.
He’s faced with a difficult choice. The president is under enormous pressure to end the war and lower gas prices—primarily because of the damage it’s doing to the Republican Party’s chances in the midterm elections and fears that renewed fighting will lead to casualties that will do even more political damage to the administration.

But he also has to know that if he concludes a deal with Tehran about its nuclear program, then he will have to endure the sort of criticism that will infuriate him. Both his opponents and some allies will say—and not without justice—that he fought a war, but then settled for an accord that was little different from the one concluded in 2015 by former President Barack Obama, which Trump had bitterly criticized as dangerously inadequate.

Why was the war fought?
Indeed, if he ends the conflict with not only the Islamist terrorist government still in place, but ultimately strengthens and enriches it via relaxed sanctions and billions in released frozen funds, then it will be reasonable to ask why the war had to be fought. It will also be fair game to ponder what happened to the bold leader who had ordered strikes on Iran in June 2025 and again earlier this year, while demanding the “unconditional surrender” of a dictatorial Islamic regime that has been at war with the United States since it came to power in 1979.