no, the united states did not lose a war against iran. trump lost a war against himself. liberalism lost a struggle against authoritarianism, but it's a struggle it was set up to lose, and that the actors guiding the liberal side weren't truly fighting. the result is irrelevant in fact, but catastrophic in theory. it looks terrible on paper.
but trump doesn't actually care.
the reality is that it doesn't matter what the document says. the iranians aren't going to abide by it, and the americans probably won't either. trump doesn't actually give a fuck. trump was just bored. it was taking too long; his attention span isn't that long. the iranians weren't cooperating. it wasn't fun. the war sucked.
the document will never be implemented, never be ratified, never mean anything. it's nonsense to the core. it looks horrific, but it's ridiculous on it's face. journalists will scour the document for meaning and purpose, but there's no meaning, and the only purpose was to end the formal state of hostilities. it means nothing else.
the blockade was a good idea, but they didn't even try. they let food and medicine in and even let some oil out. a blockade is a siege, and it might have to go on for years before it succeeds.
but, now trump doesn't have to have the war any more, because it's not any fun.
instead, he can go on tv and say shit like this, and it doesn't matter what connection it has to reality. what matters is the branding: trump wins, america won, trump brought home a peace deal for the senate. he'll sell that to his irrelevant base, as a lame duck. it just doesn't matter.
what matters is the process that comes next, which is cleaning this mess up, and it's going to be painful and violent and destructive.