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If Chalmonic went back on a time machine to last week, and he was offered to take the deal that Trump had been offering him, which was zero enrichment, knowing the consequences of what has happened,

I'm not even sure he would have taken that deal, such as his level of dogmatism. But his options

are much worse than they were last week, because in my view, the deal that's going to be offered to

him right now is not as good as the deal that was going to be offered to him last week. And I expect

that what he's going to try to do is to neither say yes nor no to a deal, but to send his diplomats

out to express interest in talking and then try to prolong this situation.

Thank you. and then try to prolong this situation. It's 10 a.m. on Tuesday, June 17th here in New York City.

It's 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 17th, in Israel, as Israelis wind

down their day to the extent that they're winding down their days at all these days, because

they're up much of the night as well. Yesterday, we released a brief news roundup where I discussed

all the major developments that had taken place in the previous 24 hours,

of which there was no shortage. To hit some quick headlines before we get into today's episode,

Israel just announced that it has killed Iran's new wartime chief of staff and the country's

most senior military commander, Ali Shadmani, who had only been appointed to his position four days ago, after Israel had

killed his predecessor, Golam Ali Rashid. On Monday, following days of Israeli strikes, the head of the

International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said it's likely that all of the 1,500

centrifuges at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant

had been damaged or completely destroyed. So far, the IDF has destroyed 40% of Iran's missile

launchers, according to a senior Israeli official. This is why we've seen a reduced number of missile

launches over the past two days. In fact, last night

was the first without Israeli civilian casualties since the war began last week, early Friday morning.

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