Dan Pfeiffer

Lufthansa canceled like 20,000 short flights already.

It's really bad.

Per usual, Trump is making his problems worse because he has made it clear to the Iranians and the world that he's horny for a deal, which the Iranians know, which is why they're going to make it harder for him to get a good deal that he can feel confident about, which he also needs to avoid seeming weak because he can't seem weak.

So it's just

And you can tell that like the Iranians are sort of showing a little more confidence in the way they're posting and talking about this.

And also they're like the clear like the IRGC is in charge and the hardliners.

And there's a long New York Times piece today about the new Ayatollah.

And he is apparently still very injured and very ill.

But like.

It's like the way they described how Iran's being governed right now is that like it's a board of directors and the new Ayatollah is the chairman of the board.

But all the generals and all the IRGC people have almost just as much of a say or certainly more of a say than they did when his father was in charge.

So that's probably not good for world peace or getting a deal.

And they can wait it out because they are a repressive, awful regime.

They don't care how much pain they inflict on their own people.

And it's not like they have elections coming up.

Right.

And they know that Donald Trump just wants out, both because he's worried about the politics and because he has no attention span.

What we all have to hope is that they end up doing a deal that's probably better for the Iranians than we would have hoped.

And Trump pretends that it's some great deal and tries to take credit for it.

But at least it ends the war like that.