At the intersection of pride, grievance, and petroleum, the United States and Iran have each raised the price of peace beyond what the other can publicly afford to pay. On Monday, competing demands for war reparations — from Washington for American casualties and Iranian civilian deaths, from Tehran for sanctions relief and military damages — narrowed the corridor toward any agreement over the Strait of Hormuz, one of the arteries through which the world's energy supply flows. The standoff is not merely a negotiation stalled; it is two nations rehearsing, for domestic and global audiences alik
Trump, Iran trade war compensation demands as Hormuz deal hopes fade
Hundreds of thousands of Iranian civilians reportedly killed by government over 50 years; U.S. military casualties from Iranian roadside bombs and conflicts.