“For the last six months, President Trump has attempted to control the narrative of the Iran war,” the Los Angeles Times reports.“As days, weeks and months passed, he repeatedly said that an agreement to end the conflict was close at hand and that Iran was already defeated. Between fraught negotiations, Trump has gone from conciliatory to antagonistic, characterizing Iran’s new leadership as more ‘rational’ than their predecessors, only to later call them ‘sick individuals.'”“There have even been times the commander in chief contradicted himself and his own Cabinet in the same week — and sometimes, the same day.”Axios: Trump’s evolving endgame for the Iran war, in 6 quotes.