Greg Myre
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Yeah, I mean, I think we went from Trump's most bombastic threats that I think I've ever heard since covering Trump, and I've covered him for over a decade.
I mean, in addition to the whole civilization dying over the weekend, Trump said that Iran needs to open the expletive straits to essentially a rocky ceasefire that was announced at really the 11th hour before he, you know,
went through with this scenario, this apocalyptic scenario of bombing bridges and power plants.
But for the last 24 hours, I mean, I think you could call it a busy day of dealmaking with foreign leaders and religious leaders and some domestic leaders really trying to put the pressure on Trump to back off these massive threats.
And Trump said he agreed to a ceasefire, a two-week ceasefire, on the condition that the Strait of Hormuz is reopened.
But I will note that there are reports out of Iranian state media today, just in the last couple hours, that says the Strait remains closed.
Because there is still bombing between Israel and Iran and Lebanon.
So there's a very rocky ceasefire.
Yeah, I don't think there's really an agreement other than we saw the post by Pakistan's prime minister, Shabazz Sharif, saying, you know, a two week ceasefire.
And then there were references to because that's Trump's favorite time frame.
Iran will leave the Strait of Hormuz open, and then they'll start negotiating.
But we haven't seen anything, and there isn't even talk that there's an actual text of any ceasefire agreement, and it was put together so quickly at the last moment.
Now, both sides have lots of things they want to negotiate, assuming this ceasefire does hold for the next two weeks.
But the truce itself basically means the shooting is stopped, the killing is stopped,
The Strait of Hormuz is supposed to be open.
We're still waiting to make sure even those basic things happen.
These 10 points that Iran is talking about, it has now been published on an Iranian media.
And it says things that just are literally diametrically opposed to things Trump has said, which is wrong.
Iran would agree that it has the right to enrich uranium.
And Trump says, no, we want all uranium enrichment stopped.