New Delhi, July 3 -- DUBAI - On June 25, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship called the M/V Ever Lovely was leaving the Strait of Hormuz along the Omani coast when an Iranian one-way attack drone hit it. The strike set off the five most dangerous days of the ceasefire period. By the time they ended, US aircraft had struck Iranian missile storage and radar sites twice, Iran had launched drones and missiles at US military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, and both sides had threatened to end the talks entirely. Then they all showed up in Doha on July 1.

the strikes hit infrastructure used to attack commercial shipping, not population centers or military command nodes. CENTCOM said its commitment to the agreement with Iran remained "in full force and...