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Catching Our Eye

• Defeat. SkyNews International Affairs Editor Dominic Waghorn writes, “Iran deal is tacit admission of strategic defeat by Trump administration.”

Donald Trump has arrived for this week’s G7 summit in France keen to celebrate his peace deal with Iran. But the agreement has only proved this war was one of the greatest strategic blunders in US history.

The Iran “deal” is a tacit admission of strategic defeat by the Trump administration and of a failure to achieve nearly all of his war aims.

The US and Iran have agreed to stop fighting and to open the Strait of Hormuz. Everything else is being kicked down the road over 60 days of ceasefire and beyond.

Given that the Strait was open before the conflict was started by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, reopening it is no great achievement. It simply restores the status quo ante bellum.

• Doubts. Axios reports, “Scoop: CIA director doubts Iran’s intentions on deal, sources say.”

CIA Director John Ratcliffe told President Trump and other senior officials that intelligence gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies raised serious doubts about Iran’s willingness to make the nuclear concessions the U.S. is seeking in any final deal, according to three sources familiar with those discussions.

Friction point: Ratcliffe isn’t the only skeptic in Trump’s top team. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have both expressed concerns and raised questions about the deal in internal discussions, while Vice President Vance and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner advocated for it, according to two of the sources.

• Drone plot Ohio arrest. The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Quinlan Bentley reports, “FBI foils UFC event drone plot. Arrest made in Cincinnati, report says.”

One person was arrested in Cincinnati in connection with what federal authorities described as a planned and targeted attack against the Ultimate Fighting Championship event at the White House, according to authorities and news reports.

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies became aware on June 10 of a possible threat involving people outside of the nation’s capital targeting last weekend’s event, FBI Director Kash Patel said on social media.