Iran war has “fundamentally transformed" the United States’s position in the Middle East

Mediators from Pakistan and Qatar say the United States and Iran made "encouraging progress" during 18 hours of negotiations in Switzerland, where the two sides agreed to a roadmap toward reaching a final deal within 60 days. The Iran war has “fundamentally transformed the United States' position in the Middle East,” says journalist Spencer Ackerman.

“The Iranians have cratered the air bases, destroyed the radar systems that protected those air bases, and have held at risk the energy and other critical infrastructure — data center facilities — around the Gulf states that hosted the United States’s military presence, made those U.S. allies in the Gulf think very seriously about whether the United States’s military umbrella actually defends them.”