Trump’s Iran dilemma: He’s stuck in war with no exit in sight

With diplomacy faltering and military escalation carrying steep political risks, Trump faces increasingly difficult choices as the conflict drags into its sixth month with no clear path to end the war.

With President Donald Trump’s war against Iran now in its sixth month, this week’s flurry of threats and diplomacy has underscored the ever-tighter bind he finds himself in as he tries to extricate the US from an unpopular conflict he originally claimed would last just weeks.