Mark Mazzetti

That's the good news.

The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement, and I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America.

The American delegation is leaving Islamabad, and there's really no immediate prospects for another round of negotiations, although that could certainly happen.

We've made very clear what our red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them on, and what things we're not willing to accommodate them on.

And we've made that as clear as we possibly could, and they have chosen not to accept our terms.

And meanwhile, there's this sort of extraordinary split screen where...

President Trump is in Miami at a UFC fight.

Oh, wow.

Projecting kind of indifference to the whole thing.

You know, he says to reporters on the way down, well, I don't really care what goes on in these negotiations because we've already won.

He's already declared victory.

So it was sort of an amazing day that ultimately ended very inconclusively in terms of what's next in the war on Iran.

Right.

Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz, which remains closed.

Iran still has a stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which the United States wants it to give up.

And Iran is demanding economic sanctions relief from these very crippling sanctions that the United States for years has imposed on the country.

And so after all these negotiations on Saturday, it doesn't appear there was great progress on any of those fronts.

Yes, that.

And there's another reason, which is kind of more unstated and a bit more under the radar, and that's Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Hmm.