Iran Seized Two Ships Hours After Trump Blinked

Watch the full Daily DeFranco Show: https://www.youtube.com/@PhilipDeFranco?sub_confirmation=1 Get More News Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpLB7kBu9O5dbBKhaIOmqcQ?sub_confirmation=1 Donald Trump, after saying he wouldn’t, has extended the US ceasefire with Iran. Which responded by attacking and apparently seizing commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. But with still no date set for talks it’s unclear what happens next. Right, the American and Iranian negotiating teams were meant to be meeting in Pakistan today for a second round of talks. But throughout the day yesterday it became increasingly clear that this wasn’t gonna happen. And you had Trump claiming he didn’t want to extend the ceasefire and expected to continue bombing Iran if a deal wasn’t reached in time—after he had previously threatened to blow up every single bridge and power plant in the country without an agreement. But, of course, Trump has also repeatedly backtracked, backed down, and contradicted himself on nearly every aspect of this war—from the status of negotiations to the whereabouts of his lead negotiator. And so it wasn’t all that surprising last night when you had him taking to Truth Social to reveal that the cease-fire would be extended until, quote: “....such time as [Iran’s] leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal” and “such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other.” He also claimed that his decision was in response to a request from the Pakistani overnment—and you soon after had Pakistan’s Prime Minister expressing his thanks to Trump for “graciously accepting” his government’s request to “extend the ceasefire to allow ongoing diplomatic efforts to take their course.” But—maybe most notably—Trump claimed his decision to extend the ceasefire until Iran could present a “unified proposal” was “based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured…” And we talked about the divides believed to exist within the regime yesterday but apparently they may go even deeper than previously believed—especially thanks to Israel’s assassination of the man who had been Iran’s de facto leader. With one US official reportedly telling Axios that, without this guy bridging the gap, the IRGC generals now running the country are openly at odds with the negotiating team—saying: "We saw that there is an absolute fracture inside Iran between the negotiators and the military — with neither side having access to the supreme leader, who is not responsive.” And with that, according to them and other sources, the division became more clearly known on Friday when the country’s foreign minister announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz but the IRGC refused to go along. —————————— Produced by: Cory Ray, Philip DeFranco Edited by: James Girardier, Maxwell Enright, Julie Goldberg, Christian Meeks, Matthew Henry Art Department: William Crespo Writing/Research: Jared Paolino, Philip DeFranco ———————————— #USA #America #Iran