{"id":561702,"date":"2026-03-26T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/561702\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:54:09","slug":"3-things-trump-needs-to-do-to-end-the-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/561702\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Things Trump Needs to Do to End the Iran War"},"content":{"rendered":"

A note from our Editor-in-Chief:<\/p>\n

I am delighted to re-introduce Harrison Mann to Zeteo. A former Middle East analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and a former US Army major, he has written for Zeteo before but now, thanks to your support and paid subscriptions, he\u2019s officially a Zeteo contributor. As the US gets closer to a ground war in Iran, Harrison will be bringing his expertise and experiences to Zeteo readers. If you\u2019re not already a paid subscriber, please become one today to avoid the paywall and to support independent journalism in a time of war. <\/p>\n

-Mehdi <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Trump and Rubio speak to reporters on March 20, 0226. Photo by Celal Gunes\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

This week, President Donald Trump launched a one-man diplomacy blitz to end his war with Iran \u2013 maybe literally \u201cone-man,\u201d because it\u2019s unclear if Trump was negotiating with anyone but himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, just two days after he threatened to bomb Iranian power plants \u2013 a likely war crime<\/a> \u2013 Trump posted<\/a> about \u201cVERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS REGARDING A COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION OF OUR HOSTILITIES,\u201d between unnamed American and Iranian negotiators. On Tuesday, he both tacked on the puzzling claim<\/a> that Iran had given him a \u201cvery big present,\u201d and <\/a>reportedly<\/a> sent Iran a 15-point ceasefire plan similar to US demands already rejected before the war.<\/p>\n

Pakistani intermediaries confirmed they had delivered<\/a> Trump\u2019s messages to Tehran. Iranian officials denied talks had taken place \u2013 and made their own demands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whether or not Tehran has opened Trump\u2019s DMs, the sad truth is that Trump\u2019s own actions have made negotiating a peace nearly impossible in the immediate term. The good news is there\u2019s still a lot he can do to speed up the end of his war. But let’s start with what he can’t do:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A note from our Editor-in-Chief: I am delighted to re-introduce Harrison Mann to Zeteo. A former Middle East…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-561702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}