Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction.  Missiles still get fired; airstrikes initiated.  Destruction to infrastructure, and death, follows.  Yet despite the misunderstandings, the sniping and the harrying, these odd understandings are often described by those funny political coves as “holding”.  In the case of the ceasefire between Tehran and Washington, articulated with some fanfare with a Memorandum of Understanding, only the most piously delusional would claim it was holding in any way. The June 18 MoU stipulates from the outset that the US, Iran and their allies “declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, and undertaken from now on not to initiate any war or any […]