Damian Paletta

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.

And in that respect, the U.S.

felt like it, you know, hit Iran in a way that the country had never been hit before.

But some version of its regime did survive.

And they did find a way to just have this choke point in the Strait of Hormuz that allowed them to force Trump into a ceasefire from their perspective.

Right.