David E. Sanger
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They had seen some activity around missile sites that could be a threat to American ships that are just offshore in the Strait.
They'd seen a fair bit of drone activity being conducted there.
And they had also seen some laying of mines or what they thought was laying of mines from small boats that the Iranians controlled.
So they blew some of these up.
And then they went away and they carefully referred to it as a self-defense action.
Now, whether the Iranians viewed it that way, we don't know.
But it tells you that this is all at a pretty delicate moment where there is this strange mix of incentive and force to try to get the agreement.
That's right.
Tyler and I certainly feel that.
I think you have to be pretty skeptical.
I mean, Rachel, you and I were both in Israel during the time period when the agreement was announced with Hamas.
And the president at the time said, well, in just a few weeks...
Hamas will disarm and we'll have a fuller agreement and we'll start rebuilding Gaza.
And as you suggested, none of that has happened yet.
So imagine a world now where you move forward to the Iran deal.
It was only 11 weeks ago that the president said this war ends only one way.
with Iran's unconditional surrender.
He has now moved toward, well, maybe we can get a deal to reopen the Strait, which was open the day the war started.
Right.
And then resume negotiations, which were underway before the war started.
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