Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed the war has been won.A BBC Middle East expert has said Donald Trump “has lost control” of the war in Iran as America struggles to reach a deal to end the conflict.
Jeremy Bowen, the corporation’s international affairs editor, said the US president’s decision to launch attacks on Iran on February was “based on flawed assumptions”.
His comments came as America carried out strikes on Iranian military sites in response to the downing of a US helicopter in the Gulf.
The developments are the biggest threat so far to the uneasy ceasefire which has been in place since April.
Speaking on Radio 4′s Today programme, Bowen said: “Donald Trump likes to feel he is the master of all he surveys [but] it is ab...
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