Ceasefire in Iran. President Trump finds an off-ramp to the five-week war, but at what cost? And can the U.S. and Iran make a long-term deal? Tonight to Compass Points.

President Trump began the week threatening Iran, warning its, quote, whole civilization will

die unless the Strait of Hormuz was reopened by his deadline.

But when Pakistan presented a plan to temporarily

halt hostilities, the president embraced it. U.S. and Iran call it a ceasefire. Vice

President J.D. Vance called it a fragile truce. The president's critics say he blinked.

Whatever you call it, it was an off-ramp. Then the president took it. Joining us now to talk about this, Danielle Pletka, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Dana Stroll is the director of research at the Washington Institute of Near East Peace and a former

Defense Department official.

Ray Take is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former official on the

National Security Council staff, and Alex Vitanka is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former official on the National Security Council staff.

And Alex Fetanka is a senior fellow at the Mideast Institute.

Thank you all very much, and welcome back, all of you, to Compass Points.

This week, we heard declarations of victory from both Washington and Tehran.

Let's start with the U.S. Secretary Hegsteth called this a capital V military victory.

Danny, did the U.S. win?

I think it's very hard for any of us to say whether we've won or not,

because we don't really know what the president's goals were.

This is the problem.

The military says that its goals were obvious, right?

So there's no question that we have, and I think that we're using this word accurately,

decimated much of Iran's defense industrial complex.

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