Jeremy Scahill

There may be some compromise language to that sort of indicates that eventually the Iranians are going to talk about this.

Maybe they'll put some statement in there that has to do with like a nuclear weapon.

You know, Trump keeps saying,

They have to say that they're never going to build a nuclear weapon.

Well, that's been Iran's position for a few decades now.

And there was a fatwa issued by the late Supreme Leader saying that it would be a sin to possess a weapon of mass destruction.

But Trump is really obsessing on that.

And maybe that opens some wiggle room where the Iranians essentially restate an existing position.

Although, Emily, I will say there is a ferocious debate that's been intensified within Iran's ruling circles right now about whether it was a mistake not to have pursued a nuclear weapon because the North Korean government remains intact and isn't being bombed by the United States for the sole reason that it has a nuclear weapon.

So I think that the Iranians have called it a red line.

The idea that they're going to put up terms in any sort of detail or make front-end commitments would be a massive concession from the Iranians, and they are saying that they are absolutely not going to do that.

Jeremy, last night we had in the middle of all of this, Rachel Scott tweeted out here that Trump apparently called this back and forth, this attack on Iran, a love tap.

And again, when asked if this meant that the ceasefire was over, he said, no, it's still in full effect.

What do you think from the Iranians POV, how they're interpreting this?

Are they interpreting this as a simple love tap and the ceasefire is still on?

Or is this going to throw a grenade in the middle of everything?

How do you think they're interpreting all of this?

I think that the Iranians are approaching this with what sometimes has been called by both Hezbollah or Iran strategic patience.

I think Iran could have reacted in a way where they just sort of lit up the Persian Gulf countries again.

I mean, there are reports of explosions that happened in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and certainly the Iranians have carved out the United Arab Emirates as a particular target.