A tenuous ceasefire in Iran.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, conditional on the Strait of Hormuz fully reopening to commercial shipping. President Trump announced the deal less than two hours before his 8:00 PM ET deadline for Iran to lift its restrictions on the strait or face strikes on civilian infrastructure. Trump also said that the U.S. received a 10-point peace plan from Iran he believed to be “a workable basis on which to negotiate.”
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:12.5 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Sahl, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the ceasefire in Iran. |
| 0:35.4 | I want to put ceasefire in quotation marks, which you'll hear more about in my take, |
| 0:41.1 | but we're calling it a ceasefire for now. So we're going to talk about the ceasefire. Before we jump |
| 0:47.3 | into that, though, I do want to give a quick plug for two full-time positions that just opened up |
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| 1:35.3 | and also bummed to be losing her. The other position is a fully remote position as a video editor, |
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| 2:02.9 | All right, with that, I'm going to send over to Will Kayback, our senior editor who's on the pod with me today to break down our main story. |
| 2:08.9 | And I'll be back for my take. |
| 2:18.4 | Thanks, Isaac. |
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