Deepa Shivram

Yeah, well, President Trump said yesterday on social media that the U.S.

is in discussions with a, quote, new and more reasonable regime in Iran.

Though at the press briefing yesterday, Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt declined to go into detail on what that meant.

And the president's post said something similar to what he's been saying for weeks, that great progress has been made in the negotiations so far.

But there isn't yet an agreement on opening the Strait of Hormuz, which is a critical route for oil transportation.

And Trump had previously said that April 6th was this deadline for reopening the strait.

Now in his post online, he's saying that a deal needs to be reached, quote, shortly.

If it's not, the U.S., he says, will resume strikes on Iran.

And Trump says they'll hit electric plants, oil wells and possibly desalinization plants.

Yeah, this is where some of that mixed messaging really comes in, because the president has been saying things like, you know, talks with Iran have been moving forward.

He thinks that a deal will be reached on the street.

He's even said that the U.S.

is actually way ahead of schedule on achieving their goals in Iran.

So maybe that means things would wrap up early.

But while he's saying all that, he's sending thousands of U.S.

troops to the region.

There's

Now, Caroline Levitt said yesterday that this is about giving the president options.

It doesn't necessarily indicate any new decisions from the president, but it does leave a lot of questions as to how successful U.S.

operations are going and how much longer this war is really going to last, how much more involved U.S.