🏛️ Politics May 5, 2026 · John M. Donnelly

US military actions test Trump’s claim the Iran war is over

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US military actions test Trump’s claim the Iran war is over
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ANALYSIS — Even if a recent flareup of military skirmishes in the Middle East merely continues but does not escalate, the clashes cast doubt on President Donald Trump’s formal assertion to Congress on May 1 that hostilities between American and Iran have “terminated.”



The renewed fighting has put intense strain on a tenuous ceasefire in the wider war. In Washington, the surge in combat solidifies a sense that the war’s economic shock waves and electoral risks will not soon subside.



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