00:00It's a typical morning in Tehran, but the lingering tension that's been in the background
00:04since Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire hasn't gone away, because as this weekend
00:09has shown, that ceasefire is far from secure.
00:13Iran launched ballistic missiles towards U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, while the U.S.
00:18shot down Iranian attack drones headed for the Strait of Hormuz and hit coastal surveillance
00:23radar sites.
00:25Iranian state TV read out a statement from the country's Revolutionary Guard warning
00:30of total closure of the critical Strait of Hormuz if attacks continue, meaning a continued
00:35choking off of much of the world's oil, gas and chemical fertilizer.
00:39On Saturday, war-weary Iranians expressed hope for the indirect talks the two sides are still
00:45engaged in.
01:00Polls suggest many in the U.S. feel similarly, with an economist YouGov poll showing almost
01:06seven in ten Americans want a deal to end the war as soon as possible.
01:10Faced with the war's unpopularity and upcoming midterm elections, U.S. President Donald Trump
01:15declared in a speech in Wisconsin that the war will end soon.
01:18We're at a point, we're going to come out of Iran very quickly and it's going to be very
01:22strong, one way or the other, whether it's a piece of paper or the very tough way.
01:28There are many possible stumbling blocks on the way, issues like sanctions and Iran's
01:33nuclear program.
01:34And to further complicate things, the U.S. is preparing a draft resolution condemning
01:39Iran ahead of a meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's governors next week.
01:44And then there's this, a reminder that this war has more than one front, and that the
01:49U.S. and Iran aren't the only ones fighting.
01:52Here in southern Lebanon Saturday, smoke rose into the sky after Israeli strikes, part of
01:58Israel's campaign against Iran's Lebanon-based proxy Hezbollah.
02:02Israel's military says it hit a vehicle it believed was Hezbollah, but it turned out to
02:07have Lebanese army personnel inside.
02:09The Lebanese army has not gotten involved in the fighting.
02:12Two Lebanese army officers and a soldier died.
02:16Iran's foreign minister recently said an end to the war means a total end to the war,
02:21including the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
02:41A reported heated phone call between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu over Lebanon,
02:47though, suggests that settling both parts of this regional war at once will not be easy,
02:52as, since jointly launching hostilities at the end of February, the goals of the U.S. and
02:57Israel may no longer be so closely aligned.
03:00Ryan Wu and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.
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