Krystal Ball

So that left him with few options.

You know, from the Iranian side, yes, the points have shifted a little bit over time.

But basically, since the beginning of the war, they have said, these are our priorities.

This is what we want to end this war.

And we don't want a temporary ceasefire.

We want an end to a permanent end to hostilities.

And we need guarantees that both our deterrence is strong enough and also some international community guarantees that we're not going to end up back here again.

So obviously Trump is lying when he's like, oh, these 10 points you guys are talking about has nothing to do with it.

He's just responding to the fact that people, when they looked, and I'm not just talking about liberals, leftists, anti-war activists, whatever.

When his supporters looked at what this basis for negotiation was, they said, this is a surrender.

This is a complete and total defeat.

for the United States of America.

So everything since then is him trying to obfuscate and spin that the, you know, this decisive defeat is what it would effectively be, is not as bad as it looks.

And then with regard to this piece on Lebanon, it is as clear as it could possibly be that Lebanon was part of the deal.

That's what the Pakistani prime minister tweeted out in a tweet that was likely drafted by us.

The

It was confirmed that it was reviewed by us.

Yeah.

And very likely drafted directly by us that included the language about Lebanon being included.

So they're just lying now that that was never contemplated or that it was ambiguous.