Donald Trump may have de-escalated (for now), but Boris Johnson has already proved to be weak in the face of US hawkishness, says foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
So the war is off – at least for now. Donald Trump, in his bottomless wisdom, informed a grateful world today that he was graciously declining to destroy Iran after its modest airstrikes on US bases in Iraq. This being Trump, it could change, of course, in a matter of hours. Today peace, tomorrow who knows? For nothing fundamental in this needless, irrationally, hateful confrontation has changed. There is still no plan, no obvious diplomatic route, no peace process.
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