A Mexican standoff over the Strait of Hormuz and Orban goes down.

We'll discuss all this and more. On this edition of the editors, I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joined, as always by the right, Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the good neighbor, Noah Rothman, and the sage of authenticity woods, Jim Garrity. You are, of course, listening to a national view of podcasts or sponsors. This episode are ExpressVPN, Donors Trust, and Vare. more about all of them in due course.

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anything so Jim Garrity,

we got more action in the Iran War when we recorded Friday. You weren't here. We were giving

our preliminary judgments just based on the ceasefire, but a lot has changed since then. One, we have

no deal out of Islamabad after 21 hours of talks, although they're reporting that one of the

disputes, there's reporting that one of disputes is over the length of time of a suspension

of enrichment. We supposedly want 20 years. They offered five, which kind of offers the vista of a potential deal, because

if you want something that's where the number of it is 20, and I want the same thing where

the number is five, we're willing to give you the same thing where the number is five, you can

see how you could compromise on that number potentially. And then, very importantly, Trump,

who has blown hot and cold on the Strait of Hormuz, is now blowing

very hot, saying it's completely intolerable. He's right about that, what Iran plans to do with

the strait, and we are blockading their blockade. What do you make of it?

So one of my recurring points in the discussion of Iran over the course of the years that if you

look at the history of the Islamic Republic, they have broken just about every treaty they've ever

signed. They lie, they cheat, they steal, which kind of raises the question of like, what is the

point of negotiating these deals? Why, you know, what do you think you're going to get out of it?

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