Mark Halperin

And looming over it all,

hugely important for the financial community everybody i know in the financial community says number one issue is opening the strait but this war didn't start to open the straight that wasn't the goal the straight was open before the war this war this war started to make sure iran was not a threat to israel the united states and other countries through its nuclear and weapons program missile program and those problems still exist the missile program is is certainly set back

But Iran still has missiles and the ability to launch them.

Iran still has, as best we know, its nuclear material.

And Iran now is strengthened by controlling the Strait.

So it's confusion.

It's the fog of a ceasefire that occurred because everybody thought it was preferable to the United States and Israel destroying Iran.

But if you're asking me, and I hear you asking through the magic of audio and video, are we more likely to see a resumption of hostilities or a peace deal come out of that Islamist spot, at least in the short term?

Unfortunately, I believe it's a resumption of hostilities.

There's a lot of confusion, but what we do know is reaching any sort of deal, and the Americans will tell you this, reaching any sort of deal is going to be a challenge because of the lack of trust.

because of the distance we know the parties have between them on things like nuclear, and because, honestly, the fog of this ceasefire.

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