Zach Anderson

Great to be back.

Yeah, complicated is an understatement.

This is a really complex geopolitical issue that the United States is trying to resolve here.

Obviously, you have the U.S., you have Iran, you have Israel, but then you have players like Pakistan, the prime minister of Pakistan, who has brokered these negotiations.

You have a lot of other Middle Eastern countries who are very interested, who have been attacked by Iran in retaliation.

You have China.

who has played a role in this.

U.S.

negotiators include, obviously, President Trump at the top.

And then you have his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff.

The vice president, J.D.

Vance, has been involved.

His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been very involved in discussions surrounding Iran.

You have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

And then, you know, on the Iranian side, the foreign minister is the one who has been speaking for Iran publicly.

Here's what we know so far, that President Trump has announced the ceasefire, that Iranian foreign minister said that they had agreed to a ceasefire.

We have still seen attacks throughout the Middle East, in Israel.

in other countries there are missiles that are still flying so it's a very tenuous situation right now vice president jd vance described this as a fragile truce it's not clear if maybe there's elements of the iranian regime who have not gotten the word about a ceasefire and then maybe this will die down here but a lot is going to play out over the next few days here and we'll see if this holds

So Israel has agreed to stop attacking Iran, but they're still attacking Lebanon.

And there was a report in the Iranian state media that Iran has closed Strait of Hormuz, that they are upset about the attacks on Lebanon.