Is Trump's Deal With Iran a Good One for the U.S.?
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 15 June 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:56.9 | Donald Trump and Iran say they've agreed to a new ceasefire deal that will open the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic, especially oil traffic, and delay talks on other issues, including Iran's nuclear program for another 60 days. |
| 1:01.2 | Those talks will begin and continue for 60 days through the ceasefire. |
| 1:05.5 | Is this a good deal for American interests and security? |
| 1:09.4 | What are the chances it is going to hold up over time? |
| 1:10.5 | Welcome to the Potomac Watch. |
| 1:12.7 | I'm Paul. As you go here on our daily podcast at the Wall Street Journal Opinion. I'm here with a couple of my colleagues who are |
| 1:18.8 | foreign and defense reporters, writers, Kate O'Dell and Elliot Kaufman. Welcome to you both. So we have this announcement of the deal. |
| 1:31.0 | Elliot, your editorial from some time back kind of presaged what the terms of this would be. |
| 1:36.2 | Seems they're pretty similar to that. |
| 1:38.1 | Although one of the problems here is we don't have an actual text. |
| 1:42.3 | The signatories signed it electronically, they say. Formal signing |
| 1:47.7 | will happen on Friday, and the president said here on Monday that they might not release the text |
| 1:53.6 | even then. It might be some time later, which makes you wonder just how firm this is, especially |
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