Zach Anderson

passes through this strait and Iran's ability to keep it closed has really roiled the global economy.

And it's become a major concern for the U.S.

here.

And a key part of Trump's exit strategy for this is trying to get this strait reopened.

That's what this ceasefire is conditioned on.

So Trump discussed this in an interview with ABC, and then White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt answered some questions about it in a press briefing.

What Trump told ABC is that the U.S.

was considering a joint venture with Iran over the Strait when he was asked about

tolling but then caroline levitt was asked about this and and she said that the u.s wants the straight to be reopened without any tolls that for there to be free passage through the straight which is what the the condition was before the war ships were able to pass freely through this so iran charging a toll to have ships pass through the straight seems very problematic you know that money

would go to Iran, which could then be used for them to potentially rebuild their military or other things.

So the tolling issue is controversial, and it's going to be a major point of discussion going forward.

So the US, when this war started, they talked about destroying Iran's ballistic missile capacity.

They talked about destroying Iran's Navy, basically completely leveling their military capabilities.

They also talked about preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

The first of those two things, there certainly has been some progress by the US on those

And, you know, U.S.

officials claim that they've basically completely incapacitated Iran's military, greatly reduced their number of missiles, basically destroyed their Navy.

There are questions, though, about what extent...

these things have been reduced, to what extent their missile capacity has been destroyed, to what extent their Navy has been destroyed.

Obviously, Iran is still firing missiles here.