Goa, June 21 -- BY INVITATION

Vivek Menezes

The emotional and psychological consequences of this collapse of post-historical illusion are profound. The war on Iran, designed to satisfy the maximalist fantasies of an Israeli partner and collapse the Islamic Republic, has achieved neither.

It was already abundantly clear the USA and Israel were strategically outmaneuvered by Iran in their disastrous war of choice that is still not quite over, but the MOU signed by President Trump this week in Versailles reflects astonishing "sea change" far beyond what anyone previously thought possible, even including the Iranian regime itself.

Here is how their chief negotiator Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf - he is also Parliamentary Speaker - put it in Te...