00:00President Trump is drawing a hard line when it comes to Iran and mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:05The president ordered the Navy to, quote, shoot and kill any boat they see laying mines in the
00:10hotly contested waterway. Posting on Truth Social, he added, quote, our mine sweepers are clearing
00:15the strait right now. I am hereby ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled up level.
00:21The president's directive came just hours after the Pentagon confirmed the seizure of a sanctioned
00:26tanker carrying Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean, the second such interception just this week.
00:31Mind you, this is all happening in the midst of the extended ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran,
00:35which the president announced on Tuesday in order for Iran to produce what he called
00:40a unified proposal. A week ago, we were pretty much right here talking about how peace talks
00:46were coming any day, and here we are today with nothing on the schedule. The second round of talks
00:51is or was supposed to take place in Islamabad, Pakistan, the same location as the first round,
00:57and that is where the Post's Washington reporter Caitlin Dornbos is right now,
01:01and she has the latest on the will-they-won't-they peace talks.
01:04So it's very unclear whether or not they will happen, but I can tell you that we're confident
01:09enough that they could happen that I'm still here in Islamabad. So with that understanding,
01:15we're on the waiting end of this, that 36 to 72-hour period for the Iranians to get back
01:23to the U.S. on whether or not they will come for a second round of talks, that clock starts
01:30today.
01:31President Trump, who usually loves a good deadline, was actually chill about this on Thursday.
01:36Now what we're doing is sitting back and seeing what deal, and if they don't want to make a deal,
01:40then I'll finish it up militarily with the other 25 percent of the targets. I don't want to
01:45rush myself, you know, because every story says, oh, Trump is under time pressure. I'm not. No,
01:49no. You know who's under time pressure? They are.
01:52So will Iran come back to the table? Here's what Caitlin told me.
01:55Now, the Iranians have a long way to go. They're dealing with a lot of internal fractures.
02:00Whether or not they can come up with a quote-unquote unified proposal is still unknown,
02:04but the tension is building here in Islamabad. The pressure is certainly high,
02:10as the schools have closed, the public transportation has closed, and large parts
02:15of the city have been closed for days now, as it has been preparing for this second round of talks
02:20that were originally agreed to, but are now facing a stall of some sort.
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