Ethan Bronner

The biggest problem, of course, is that the United States and Israel

Launched this war six weeks ago and thought they could effectively take apart that regime and force change and found that the regime was far more resistant than they expected and the regime's survival and even Friday on some level in Iran.

has allowed it to take control of the Strait of Hormuz, to sort of have a stranglehold over a large part of the world economy through that, and has, you know, caused enormous political problems for President Trump.

The biggest problem, of course, is that the United States and Israel launched this war six weeks ago and thought they could effectively take apart that regime and force change and found that the regime was far more resistant than they expected.

And the regime's survival, and even Friday on some level in Iran, has allowed it to take control of the Strait of Hormuz, to sort of have a stranglehold over a large part of the world economy through that, and has, you know, caused enormous political problems for President Trump.

The problem, of course, is that the United States and Israel launched this war six weeks ago and thought they could effectively take apart that regime and force change and found that the regime was far more resistant than they expected.

And the regime's survival, and even Friday on some level in Iran, has allowed it to take control of the Strait of Hormuz, to sort of have a stranglehold over a large part of the world economy through that, and has caused enormous political problems for President Trump.

The biggest problem, of course, is that the United States and Israel

launched this war six weeks ago and thought they could effectively take apart that regime and force change and found that the regime was far more resistant than they expected and the regime's survival and even Friday on some level in Iran

has allowed it to take control of the Strait of Hormuz, to sort of have a stranglehold over a large part of the world economy through that, and has, you know, caused enormous political problems for President Trump.

Look, I think they're an obstacle, but I would be surprised if they derailed the truce.

I think that the core issue here is the Strait of Hormuz issue.

the global movement of oil and, you know, these larger Gulf issues rather than

what to some extent has been a sideshow in Lebanon and Hezbollah.

We don't know what was in the deal.

We don't know what was agreed to.

The deal was between two parties, the United States and Iran.

The United States says Lebanon was not part of the deal.

Iran says it was.

So I don't know...