U.S. Prepares to Blockade Strait of Hormuz, and a MAGA Hero Is Defeated in Europe
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What happened during the latest U.S. negotiations with Iran?
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The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America.
After almost a full day of closed-door negotiations this weekend in Pakistan, Vice President J.D. Vance emerged to announce that efforts to reach a peace deal with Iran had failed. He blamed Iran, saying they'd rejected the U.S. demand that they not try to develop a nuclear weapon.
We just could not get to a situation where the Iranians were willing to accept our terms. I think that we were quite flexible.
Earlier, even as the talks were ongoing.
Look, regardless, we win. Regardless what happens, we win.
President Trump had insisted it didn't matter if there was a deal or not. And by the time Vance was announcing that the negotiations had collapsed, Trump was at a UFC fight in Miami, watching the bloody cage matches alongside a bunch of his family members, Joe Rogan and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. That was Saturday night. On Sunday, Trump announced that the U.S. Navy will start blockading the Strait of Hormuz. It's the latest head-spinning development for the crucial waterway. Iran largely cut off the strait as leverage when the war started, though it was supposed to reopen under the current temporary ceasefire. Now, the U.S. is cutting off traffic as a way to choke off the limited amount of Iranian oil and gas that was getting through.
The Pentagon says the blockade will begin this morning on any ships coming or going from Iranian ports. Iranian officials have made clear they know this could drive up global fuel prices even more. And Iran's top negotiator seemed to taunt the U.S. online, posting, quote, Enjoy the current pump figures. Soon you'll be nostalgic for $4 to $5 gas.
Meanwhile, Iran very much wants any cessation of the war in Iran to be coupled with an ending of Israeli strikes against Hezbollah, which is a critical proxy army for Iran.
My colleagues on The Daily today explain how Israel's motivations for the war are complicating efforts to end it.
Israel doesn't want Hezbollah to be part of any negotiated ceasefire and wants to keep that part of the war going for its own reasons.
The result of the election
In elections in Hungary yesterday, Viktor Orban, Europe's most prominent right-wing populist, conceded the race. It's a major blow to the Trump administration, as Orban had been something of a MAGA icon, and to the Kremlin, both of which backed his campaign. A record-breaking number of Hungarians went to the polls, almost 80% of registered voters there. And as the results came in, crowds of mostly young people rushed into the streets to celebrate. Orban has been in power for 16 years, and he's eliminated many checks and balances in the government, stacked the courts, and taken control of most news media outlets. He's now expected to be replaced by Peter Magyar, a conservative politician who shares some of Orban's politics, including warning about the dangers of so-called woke ideology.
But Magyar managed to win over voters in part by promising to end widespread corruption in the country after years of Orban's family and friends enriching themselves. Magyar is also expected to be less hostile towards the EU and less friendly to Russia. Orban's administration had long been viewed as a security risk because members of his government reportedly shared information from EU meetings with the Kremlin. Orban's party had also held up a $100 billion EU loan to help Ukraine.
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