00:20Just hours after Trump posted a map of Iran covered in the American flag, the Financial
00:27Times is reporting the ceasefire is about to be extended, 60 more days.
00:33The man who said he'd wait a few more days before unleashing what his own team called
00:38a decisive operation is waiting two more months.
00:42So is this strategic patience, or is Trump blinking?
00:47Can you speak a little bit about your post on True Social on Iran, and what was the decision
00:53that why you didn't attack Iran?
00:56Well, other countries have come to me, and they've said we were getting ready to do a
00:59very major attack tomorrow, and I put it off for a little while, hopefully maybe forever,
01:04but possibly for a little while, because we've had very big discussions with Iran.
01:10And we'll see what they amount to.
01:12I was asked by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and some others if we could put it off for two
01:19or three days, a short period of time, because they think that they are getting very close
01:23to making a deal.
01:24And if we can do that, where there's no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think,
01:29and if they're satisfied, we will be probably satisfied also.
01:35We've informed Israel, we've informed other people in the Middle East that have been involved
01:40with us.
01:41And it's a very positive development, but we'll see whether or not it amounts to anything.
01:46We've had periods of time where we had, we thought, pretty much getting close to making
01:50a deal, and it didn't work out, but this is a little bit different.
01:54Now, we're ready going tomorrow, very big, and not something I wanted to do, but we have
01:59no choice, because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
02:03The ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran has been in place since April 8th, brokered by
02:09Pakistan after Operation Epic Fury left Iran's military severely degraded.
02:15Since then, talks have crawled.
02:18Iran's latest offer to Washington reportedly just repeats terms Trump already rejected,
02:24demanding control of the Strait of Hormuz, war reparations, sanctions lifted, frozen assets
02:30returned, and U.S. troops out.
02:33The same list, repackaged.
02:35And the Strait of Hormuz?
02:37Still closed, still blocking roughly one-fifth of the world's oil and gas supply.
02:43The UN is already warning of a potential global food price crisis if it stays shut.
02:49Here's what's actually moving behind the scenes.
02:53Pakistan's Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, flew into Tehran this weekend and sat down
02:59with Iran's president, its foreign minister, and parliament speaker, Ghalibov, the same
03:04man who this week vowed a crushing response if Trump restarts the war, and claimed Iran
03:11has used the ceasefire to rebuild its armed forces.
03:14Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday called it slight progress, then hours
03:21later hinted a deal could come as soon as today.
03:24That's a wide range.
03:26Slight progress to done-by-Sunday is a big gap.
03:30There may be news later today.
03:31I don't have news for you at this very moment, but there might be some news a little later
03:35today.
03:35There may not be.
03:36I hope there will be, but I'm not sure yet.
03:40The question is about the Iranian issue, and as I said, there's been some progress done,
03:44some progress made.
03:46Even as I speak to you now, there's some work being done.
03:48There is a chance that whether it's later today, tomorrow, in a couple days, we may have
03:52something to say, but this issue needs to be solved, as the President has said one way
03:55or the other.
03:56Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
03:57The straits need to be open without tolls.
04:00They need to turn over their enriched uranium.
04:02They need to turn over their highly enriched uranium.
04:04We need to address that issue.
04:06We need to address the issue of enrichment.
04:08These are the President's points consistently, and his preference is always to deal with it
04:12in a diplomatic way.
04:13The President's preference is always to solve problems such as these through a negotiated diplomatic
04:19solution.
04:19That's what we're working on right now.
04:21But this problem will be solved, as the President has made clear one way or the other.
04:25We hope it's done through the diplomatic route.
04:28That's what we're working on, and perhaps there will be something to talk about on that
04:31topic while I'm here on this visit at some point.
04:34Uncomfortable part nobody's saying out loud.
04:36While the U.S. waits, Iran says it's re-arming.
04:41Galiboff's words weren't vague, rebuilt armed forces.
04:44And Iran's navy is already asserting Hormuz authority, with 25 ships reportedly taking
04:51Iranian permission to pass through in the last 24 hours.
04:55So the ceasefire that was supposed to lock in American gains may actually be giving Iran
05:00room to recover.
05:02That's the argument Trump's critics and some of his own hawks are quietly making right now.
05:07Trump just posted a flag over Iran and called it the United States of the Middle East.
05:14Today he's extending the ceasefire for 60 days, with the straits still closed and the
05:19deal still not done.
05:21Whether that's calculated pressure or a stalled war with no clean exit, you decide.
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