Damian Paletta

For the U.S., it's not going to do what President Trump threatened to do, which was to blow up all their bridges, power plants, and things like that.

So for the next two weeks, the U.S.

has essentially said they're going to stand back.

They'll still have the military there and be ready, but they're not going to continue bombing Iran.

Now, one of the big questions is, is Iran going to reopen this kind of waterway that is along its shore, the Strait of Hormuz, where a lot of commercial traffic goes through, including a lot of traffic that carries oil, but also other things, too.

These are two countries that have a long history of hating each other and not trusting each other.

Can they get to a place where they might see a mutually beneficial off-ramp?

I'm not sure, but it's where we are right now.

They want the U.S.

to leave Iran alone and Iran's proxies alone.

Iran also wants to be compensated for all the things the U.S.

has blown up.

OK, we've blown up a lot of things in Iran.

And so I don't know how they think they're going to be compensated for that.

You know, a lot of their ships have been sunk.

A lot of their leaders are dead.

I don't really know what that looks like.

There's not a lot of precedent for the U.S.

just writing a check for the things that it has destroyed with its military.

So that's going to be an interesting conversation or clause there if Iran's really going to stick to that.