From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is the Daily.

After days of promising that a ceasefire was near, President Trump late Sunday announced that he had reached a deal with Iran.

Today, David Sanger, who spoke to the president, explains what is and is not included in the agreement

and how much closer it gets both sides to ending the war for good.

It's Monday, June 15th.

David Sanger, thank you so much for joining us.

Rachel, great to be with you.

It is 8 p.m. in New York.

It's after 1 a.m. in London where you are right now.

So thank you for making the time. Tell us what you know

about this very late-breaking deal with Iran. Well, Rachel, as you know, this deal has been brewing for a long time.

And it's been subject to a lot of up and down negotiations between Iran and the United States,

even as the war went from active combat to a ceasefire, to that flare-up that we saw just in the past week when the U.S. resumed

bombing of Iran for several days.

And we thought for a while that that might kill any hope of having what they've just agreed to on Sunday night, which is a preliminary memorandum of understanding.

That's really all they've done here, an agreement to reopen the strait, to end the blockade of Iran Iran and to begin a serious conversation about the nuclear

program. And in the end, the United States and the Iranians all determined it was in their

interest to do that, to end the fighting and get back to the talking.

And David, you actually spoke with the president.

Tell us about that conversation.

I did, Rachel.

It was a little bit of an unexpected call.

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