Ben Rhodes

I mean, when you look at this Board of Peace meeting, what do you expect out of that?

Where do you see this ceasefire process going in the next few weeks?

Yeah, well, you know, one thing, and I constantly point this out too, one sign that we're moving to a different stage would be if they actually let international journalists into Gaza to see what happened there.

And that still has not happened.

Let's talk about the latest in Iran, which is, you know, you and I talk to people in the region.

That's what everybody is very worried about right now and focused on.

There's this ongoing threat of U.S.

military action.

There's a lot of U.S.

military assets in the region.

And there have been these indirect nuclear negotiations between the U.S.

and the Iranian government, which have been mediated by Oman.

On Tuesday, there were talks in Switzerland about,

They ended after what Amman's foreign minister called good progress, but we don't really know what that means.

The Iranian foreign minister said that both sides had agreed to, quote, a set of guiding principles and told state TV that this round of talks were more constructive and that progress was made.

You know, kind of buzzwords of diplomacy without any details.

This round of negotiations came after a visit to the White House by Benjamin Netanyahu last week.

At that meeting, Trump and Netanyahu apparently agreed to ramp up the economic pressure as if there's anything more you can do to sanction the Iranians.

But they talked about targeting oil sales to China, which would involve sanctions on the Chinese, which would be further strain on the global economy.

I will say also that nobody's talking about the protesters anymore, who, you know, clearly there were thousands of people killed.