Newsweek's Shane Croucher lays out five scenarios for what comes next after nine months of conflict with Iran, in which President Trump declared on Truth Social, "We don't need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed," and asked Vice President JD Vance — a day after he emerged as Washington's lead negotiator with Tehran — to focus on alleged corruption in Democratic-run states. Trump claims the United States already holds hundreds of billions of Iran's dollars and the Strait of Hormuz, while Croucher argues that even taking Trump at his word, dispensing with a deal is not the same as finding an ending to the war.