Iran war aims do not disappear because the word "deal" enters the liveblog. AP's analysis says officials again describe a possible end to the war while some Trump objectives remain unfulfilled. [1]

The paper's June 13 lead treated the signing window as a claims story before a text story. Sunday keeps that distinction. Al Jazeera's explainer says Washington spoke of a possible Sunday signing while Tehran disputed the timeline. [2]

Al Jazeera's day-107 file puts the same caution in live-war language: Trump says a deal could be signed as early as Sunday, but Tehran downplays the optimism. [3] That gap is not procedural fussiness. If the war's stated objectives included nuclear limits, sanctions, Hormuz, Lebanon, Gulf basing or a broader regional settlement, the public still needs receipts for those outcomes.

MSM can cover the rhetoric as diplomacy. X can declare peace or fraud before breakfast. The paper's standard is more tedious and more useful: what text exists, who signs it, which war aims survive inside it, and which aims are quietly abandoned outside the ceremony.

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels