David Sanger

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The Daily · Inside Trump’s Deal With Iran · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

So it's not really an enforceable document.

And it's very possible that the Iranians think this is all they need to get through two and a half more years of the Trump administration.

And that they'll worry about the next steps, which will be lengthy and difficult to execute when they see who's the next president.

It hasn't shifted much, Rachel.

In the course of more than four months of war, we certainly have seen the United States succeed at destroying a good deal of Iran's missile capability.

Not all of it, but a good deal.

It has indeed sunk the Iranian Navy.

There wasn't much of one, but it's gone.

it has certainly wiped out what was left of the Iranian Air Force.

But this agreement largely gets us back to where we were before the war started, which is to say, with the Strait of Hormuz open, assuming it happens as the president describes and expects, without a blockade of Iranian ports, and with a negotiation over the nuclear program resuming in Switzerland.

Now, it does raise one interesting question though, Rachel.

While the president said to me that he wants to make sure the nuclear material that's in Iran gets dug up from beneath the rubble of the facilities that were attacked a year ago by the U.S.

Air Force, he didn't sound like he was in a huge rush.

And he thought that the United States could keep an eye on it, that from satellites and from other means, we can make sure the Iranians don't use it to produce a weapon.

But if we don't have an urgent reason to get it out, it does raise the question, why did this war happen to begin with?

Because the overarching justification for the war at the time was that Iran was just weeks or months away from being able to build a weapon.

In other words, did we need to have these three months of violence and incredible disruption?

Or was there another way to get to where we find ourselves today?

Thanks, Rachel.

Great to be with you.

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