Saagar Enjeti

So let's talk about what we know, uh, the contours of the deal.

You have a great piece up at your sub stack, which is called tree to Parsi, uh, eponymously name.

Is that the word?

Is that the way you use it?

In any case, everybody should go and subscribe, um, to see your analysis there, which elaborates on your important posts that you also put on Twitter that we all follow very closely.

Um, so in any case, you've got a great headline here.

We're mongers in meltdown as Trump heralds Iran deal.

And you talk about some of the, uh,

The reported details, you say the full details remain somewhat unclear, but according to reporting by On Watch Media, much of which I've independently corroborated, the agreement entails a comprehensive cessation of hostilities, including in Lebanon, the gradual release of Iran's frozen assets and an end to America's blockade of the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.

Maritime traffic through the Strait would resume under joint Iranian and Omani oversight.

Once these measures take effect, the parties would have an additional 30 days to negotiate a final agreement.

That second stage accord is expected to address both the nuclear issue and the long-term status of the Strait.

Significant progress, however, already appears to have been made on the nuclear file.

And as I understand it, broad principles for its resolution have largely been agreed upon.

So both the Iranians and Trump saying that they are close to an agreement.

We do not have official word yet.

What are some of the sticky or thorny issues laid out in your piece here that could still derail progress?

Good point.

Yeah.

Trita, looking from the outside, it seems to me that there have been a number of sort of key turning points or revelations during this war from the Trump perspective.