‘There are no winners’: US and Iran enter into fragile truce

The starting positions are miles apart, but they are starting positions,” said Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute think-tank. “Trump is pretty flexible. The Iranians might have to suck up some compromises because they are so battered...All the options are on the table,” Savill added. “Some kind of compromise deal, a resumption of fairly significant fighting, or a messy dragged-out discussion where each side declares they got what they want but actually what we go back to is a low-level confrontation.”