Iran Deal: Waiting for a Death Foretold

A fragile peace hangs over the Middle East.

Oğul Tuna explores why the Islamabad Accord resembles Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold: a fragile peace that the world hopes to preserve even as powerful forces appear determined to bring about its collapse.

On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on. He…