Damian Paletta

So Iran wants to be able to kind of charge a toll.

They want to make money off the Strait of Hormuz.

That could drive up costs for everyone around the world because you're having to pay higher prices.

The whole dynamic has changed now.

And Iran realizes they have leverage in places they didn't before.

Somehow a version of the regime still exists.

And they might use this two weeks to try to come up with things that they kind of demand on behalf of the United States.

Great question.

I was kind of asking my team that Tuesday morning.

How did Pakistan, of all places, get in the middle of this?

President Trump has a good relationship with Pakistan.

Pakistan is trusted by the Iranians.

So somehow they became the intermediary that was, you know, very involved in shuttling proposals back and forth.

And we'll find out in the next two weeks or maybe even sooner than that

whether they're good at, you know, appeasing both sides and kind of keeping that, continuing that trust.

Because like I said, there's a long history of bad blood between these two countries, the U.S.

and Iran.

Time will tell.

I mean, they did destroy a lot of military sites.

A lot of Iranian leadership has been killed.