Saagar

Recall that originally we had the 48 hour deadline right on the eve of the 48 hour deadline expiring, which is almost exactly a week later.

To the day Donald Trump releases something around actually exactly a week to the hour of when we're filming right around 7 a.m.

Eastern time on Monday.

He says, I'm extending it by five days.

So we get to the fifth day.

We get to Friday.

We over the show.

We're making plans.

OK, what's it going to look like?

for a ground invasion.

Now we get a 10-day extension.

And so now we are a couple of days into that 10-day extension.

But clearly, he's trying to wish-cast, trying to jawbone the oil markets and trying to make it clear that there is some sort of, quote, reasonable regime in charge.

Now, remember, by all accounts, the so-called reasonable regime that's in charge

is the current Speaker of the Parliament, Goluboff.

I recommend everybody go and follow this man on Twitter, because if you just see what he's posting, it's pretty much the opposite of what some reasonable negotiator who wants to make peace.

Now, could he be bluffing?

It's possible.

I also think we should be clear about what these peace talks look like.

It's basically the Pakistanis calling Washington and calling Tehran.