Gregg Carlstrom

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The Indo Daily · Extra: Peace deal in Iran, but has the US lost the war? · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

And even if this is somewhat quicker, I think it's going to take more than two months.

There's a possibility that they extend the 60-day ceasefire once that period expires.

I think there's a possibility that we never get to a final agreement at all, and this interim agreement just keeps getting extended for a prolonged period of time.

I think, at least for now,

It seems as if both America and Iran don't want to resume fighting.

So at least in sort of short to medium term, this deal being extended in perpetuity seems like it might be the most likely outcome.

In many ways, yes, we're back to a worse version of where we were.

If you look at the things that Trump set out to do at the beginning of the war, the first speech that he gave on February 28th when it started, he told the Iranians, the hour of your freedom is at hand and Iranians should rise up.

and overthrow their government.

Now he's making a deal with that government and denying that he ever wanted to change the regime at all.

So clearly unsuccessful on that front.

When it comes to Iran's nuclear program, again, we don't know what is going to be in this final agreement.

So we don't know if it's going to be a good deal, if it's going to be stronger than the one Donald Trump abandoned.

In 2018, there's a big question mark around that.

And the things that Trump points to as successes, the damage that America has done to Iran's navy or to its air force, for example, are not really things that are worth starting a war over and dragging the entire Middle East into a conflict.

Iran's navy, its air force were never significant tools for Iran to project power.

And meanwhile, what Iran has demonstrated over the past few months is that with relatively low cost drones and short range missiles, it has been able to hold the entire global economy hostage.

And it was always unrealistic to expect that military pressure was going to force the regime to make enormous concessions, to cave and make the sort of deal that Donald Trump initially wanted.

And that's something that, I mean, anyone who follows Iran, anyone who studies Iran has been warning about since before this war even started.

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