00:01.
00:04Look, if Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon,
00:12which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire,
00:17that's ultimately their choice.
00:19We think that would be dumb, but that's their choice.
00:21A couple things.
00:21First of all, I actually think, and there's a lot of bad faith negotiation and a lot of bad faith
00:28propaganda going on,
00:30I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding.
00:33I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't.
00:38We never made that promise. We never indicated that was going to be the case.
00:41What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran and the ceasefire would be focused on America's
00:46allies.
00:47We have the Iranians promising to open the Straits of Hormuz,
00:50and we have a negotiation that's supposed to start this weekend.
00:53That's the truth. I think it's a good first step.
00:55We're going to see if we can make more progress here in the days to come.
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