00:00Look, if Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart in a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon
00:08which has nothing to do with them and which the United States never once said was part of the ceasefire,
00:13that's ultimately their choice. We think that would be dumb, but that's their choice.
00:17A couple things. First of all, I actually think, and there's a lot of bad faith negotiation and a lot
00:23of bad faith propaganda going on. I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding. I think the Iranians thought that
00:31the ceasefire included Lebanon and it just didn't. We never made that promise. We never indicated that was going to
00:36be the case. What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran and the ceasefire would be
00:41focused on America's allies.
00:43We have the Iranians promising to open the Straits of Hormuz and we have a negotiation that's supposed to start
00:48this weekend. That's the truth. I think it's a good first step. We're going to see if we can make
00:52more progress here in the days to come.
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