Trita Parsi

And then if it gets something else, and even if it doesn't, it will have formed a narrative of said that the Iranians caved because the U.S.

threatened to close the Persian Gulf as a whole with a naval blockade, etc.,

So a lot of these things I think should be read as tactics within a negotiation rather than necessarily an end to the negotiations because it's very important to keep two things in mind.

Neither side has said that the talks are over.

None of them.

And neither side has gone back to firing at each other.

So the ceasefire is holding.

And if the ceasefire is holding, that means that the negotiations, at least nominally, may still be alive, particularly mindful of the fact that neither one of them has said, this is over with, we're not going to meet again.

And even J.D.

Vance's speech or presser, he said, we have made our terms clear.

The Iranians need to accept that or something like that.

He didn't say it's over.

I think on the Iranian side, it's actually quite clear that may be part of the challenge they have in their negotiations.

They're not going to give up the control of Strait of Hormuz, but they can consider various arrangements.

The US side did make some proposal on that.

The Iranians rejected those.

I do hope that the Iranians see a value in doing something with the US on this, because I think it will be very important for Trump as part of his narrative, but also because it may actually stabilize the situation if the US is in on it in some fashion.

It could be different.

The U.S.

proposal was sharing a toll.