John Feiner

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I'm John Feiner.

And I'm Jake Sullivan.

And we're the hosts of The Long Game, a weekly national security podcast.

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One is that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, and there's no indication that unless the United States puts something serious on the table to compensate Iran in some way, sanctions relief or something else, that the Iranians are inclined to open it.

And second, this nuclear material, which we've talked about for weeks now, highly enriched uranium that Iran retains, despite the United States having bombed it many times and told Iran they have to give this up in order for the war to end.

Those are the two big issues in the talks, and we don't see many closer to resolving them.

Every negotiation with the Iranians takes maddeningly longer than you intend and than you would like.

And I don't think this will be any different, especially because I think they believe they have the upper hand strategically going into these negotiations.

So a good outcome to me would be an agreement to talk again at a fixed date and with some positive momentum towards extending this two-week ceasefire.

I do think they've made a decision to elevate domestic issues as we head towards the midterms.

We'll see if that sticks because he keeps getting drawn back to the foreign policy issues.

I'm John Feiner.

And I'm Jake Sullivan, and we're the hosts of The Long Game, a weekly national security podcast.

Search for and follow The Long Game wherever you get your podcasts.