Divisions within Iran’s leadership weigh on talks with the US

The Treasury Department is exploring targeting Chinese banks, shadow fleets and exchange houses, but secondary sanctions risk economic blowback

But that deadline, set to pass on Monday, has been essentially abandoned, and the war has transformed into a contest of willpower and economic endurance that has no end in sight.

As the war — now in its sixth month — has dragged on, this list of goals has conspicuously shifted and been pared back.