Benham Ben-Taliblu

You know, the regime is saying all these things about getting cash, access to frozen funds, what have you.

The Trump administration is denying it.

Great to be with you.

Thanks for having me.

Well, I think this is the million-dollar question because we don't have the full text.

Allegedly, it'll be shared Friday.

I think the earlier the better, particularly because the president can use the text against this narrative war that the Islamic Republic has been running.

You know, they're making it look like America submitted, that America needed this thing.

much more than the regime did.

I mean, yes, we want the Strait of Hormuz to be open, but the regime was sliding towards failed state status anyway, pre-protest, pre-war.

So we have to take some of this stuff into account and take it with more than a grain of salt.

And the best way to do so is with transparency, truth, heat, and a little bit of light.

Well, I think we can be moderately confident that we'll get to this phase one, where basically the Iranians back down and the Americans back out as it relates to the Strait of Hormuz.

But I don't even think this is properly called a peace deal.

This is a memorandum of understanding to extend by another 60 days the state of ceasefire between these two sides.

The state of ceasefire, by the way, which as we saw in the past two, two and a half weeks,

was a pretty violent, turbulent state of the ceasefire with the Islamic Republic firing on America's partners on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf and even striking Jordan and Israel in some recent rounds of violence there.

So some pretty tense times.

I think the U.S.

is going to use this time to try to negotiate a bigger nuclear agreement to try to get out