A deal is done. The deal is not done. Both statements are now on the record, attributed to the two sides of the same negotiation. The President says it will be signed in Europe this weekend. The Iranian side says the document it would be signing does not exist yet.

Two days after Israel and Iran agreed to stop shooting at each other, the United States opened a second front against Tehran — and the President of the United States, in a live phone interview from the Situation Room, refused to say it would be the last.

Israel and Iran stopped shooting. The reason they stopped is the same reason the deal is not yet real: Lebanon, Lebanon, Lebanon. And a president who has now told the press that peace is imminent thirty-seven times.

Israel bombed Beirut unannounced. Iran fired 10 missiles at Israel in response. Trump was on the phone to Netanyahu within the hour, telling him not to retaliate. The deal he was 48 hours from signing is now the one he has to rebuild.