Iran talks: The real stakes no one is talking about

Well, speaking of things that are pretty unremarkable, Iran is still all over the news.

But what we are struggling to get our heads around is anything that's sort of remotely interesting as far as developments go, because it just seems from the outside to be taking on exactly as it was.

This was The war that sort of grabbed everybody's attention was all over the news, the pictures and the bombs.

And it was war as people know it and understand it.

And so since the ceasefire, they've all gone pretty quiet.

There's a lot of digging heels in.

What is actually going on, Kleena? And why is it still something that is all over the news without anything to really say? So it's

a really good point.

So we mentioned last week that the conflict has been in ceasefire mode for longer than it was an active conflict.

And that ceasefire mode has not been productive in the sense that there is some sort of a peace agreement to come out of it.

There's just kind of back and forth about where people are positioning themselves, the Iranians or the U.S. mainly.

They have not moved from those positions, especially Iran, who are being what's referred to as maximalist in its position in that they see no reason to budge whatsoever.

And this is back to the perception of that they believe that they have won and that it's just a matter of making the U.S. wait it out and have the pressure points that are unique to the U.S. continue to build.

The U.S. has the exact same interpretation, which is that whether it's the blockade or internal issues, that the pressure on Iran will cause the IRGC to relinquish some of the control that they are exerting over the ceasefire.

But neither is true.

Neither is winning.

So at the moment, we have these back and forth skirmishes.

Last night, it was Kuwait.

Last week, it was UAE.

And there's still some engagement between the US and Iran.

But yeah, we're nowhere.

I will say that the way this has matured is actually quite typical.

It's usually a very interested in conflicts in the very first few weeks.

This one's possibility for going wrong was so enormous that the level of attention matched that.

But this feeling of kind of unease and disorder is what we should all get used to because this is it for like, I would say about 10 years.

Well, speaking of things that are pretty unremarkable, Iran is still all over the news.

But what we are struggling to get our heads around is anything that's sort of remotely interesting as far as developments go, because it just seems from the outside to be taking on exactly as it was.

This was The war that sort of grabbed everybody's attention was all over the news, the pictures and the bombs.

And it was war as people know it and understand it.

And so since the ceasefire, they've all gone pretty quiet.

There's a lot of digging heels in.

What is actually going on, Kleena? And why is it still something that is all over the news without anything to really say? So it's

a really good point.

So we mentioned last week that the conflict has been in ceasefire mode for longer than it was an active conflict.

And that ceasefire mode has not been productive in the sense that there is some sort of a peace agreement to come out of it.

There's just kind of back and forth about where people are positioning themselves, the Iranians or the U.S. mainly.

They have not moved from those positions, especially Iran, who are being what's referred to as maximalist in its position in that they see no reason to budge whatsoever.

And this is back to the perception of that they believe that they have won and that it's just a matter of making the U.S. wait it out and have the pressure points that are unique to the U.S. continue to build.

The U.S. has the exact same interpretation, which is that whether it's the blockade or internal issues, that the pressure on Iran will cause the IRGC to relinquish some of the control that they are exerting over the ceasefire.

But neither is true.

Neither is winning.

So at the moment, we have these back and forth skirmishes.

Last night, it was Kuwait.

Last week, it was UAE.

And there's still some engagement between the US and Iran.

But yeah, we're nowhere.

I will say that the way this has matured is actually quite typical.

It's usually a very interested in conflicts in the very first few weeks.

This one's possibility for going wrong was so enormous that the level of attention matched that.

But this feeling of kind of unease and disorder is what we should all get used to because this is it for like, I would say about 10 years.