‘No clear strategy’: how Trump went from shock and awe to wait and see in Iran

Lack of a sustained plan to end the war has convinced US allies that the White House is running out of ideas Nearly eight weeks after Donald Trump launched his assault on Iran , the White House has shifted from a strategy of shock-and-awe bombardments and leadership decapitation to a plan of sustained economic pressure as it tests the wills of a regime practiced over decades at wars of attrition. Since the negotiations stalled, the White House has begun to shift its messaging to say it is willin