Okay, we are live with Alexander Mercuris. Hello to everyone that is joining us on another

live stream where we are going to discuss the fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel.

Alexander, you're you need to do a hard stop in about 30 to 40 minutes.

So let's just jump right into it.

Hello to everybody.

Thank you to our moderators.

Alexander, what do you think of this ceasefire deal that allegedly President Donald Trump brokered?

Well, I get to say straight away. I don't think he brokered it, but he's endorsed it. The Israelis say that Iranians have breached it. They say that they're about to strike it

Iran. Because Iran breached it, Iran denies that they've reached it. This is an incredibly

fragile ceasefire and it may not hold. But I think more likely than not, eventually we will

get to a cessation of the fighting. And I get to make a suggestion suggestion I think that the reason the fighting is

stopping is because Israel is running out of air defence interceptors it cannot sustain a

prolonged war apparently they told the Trump people over the weekend that Israel could not wait the two weeks that

Trump initially suggested he might need in order to decide to make a strike on Iran.

That was in the American media.

I think Israel is running out of space in order to continue this conflict.

And there were reports yesterday in the Wall Street Journal that Israel was trying to communicate

to Iran, the fact that it was looking for a way to cease the fighting.

And I think that communications of that kind were circulating

between Israel and Iran. Qatar obviously was playing a significant role. The Iranians clearly

also want this thing to end in some way. So they pulled their punches with the strikes against

the American bases yesterday. And I think we're close to the point where this is ending through

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