What are the words we're using to describe whatever it is that the Trump administration

and the Islamic Republic of Iran are expected to sign this Friday?

I've heard some people describe this latest agreement as a ceasefire, as an accord.

But Greg Karlstrom, from over at the Economist, he says there are a couple of words he is begging you not to use.

Not a peace deal. That is very much not what I think this is. It's not how I would describe it. I mean, the U.S.

government is calling it a memorandum of understanding. I think you could also call it a deal to keep

talking about another deal, which is very much what the ceasefire was back in April. And this is

just the sort of warmed over, updated version of that in some

ways.

It feels a little bit to me like an extension on a term paper more than anything.

It gives us 60 more days to negotiate something firmer.

It does.

I mean, if you go back to that ceasefire in April, why did they not agree to a more comprehensive

deal that would end the war for good?

It's because there were certain substantive points of disagreement that they just couldn't resolve.

And at the top of that list was what do you do with Iran's nuclear program with its stockpile of

highly enriched uranium?

And that's unresolved here.

It's completely unresolved in this memorandum of understanding.

The basic thing the U.S. wants the world to know is that the Strait of Hormuz will be opening at some point soon. Even that seems squishy to me.

Like when Donald Trump first announced on social media, there was some kind of agreement.

The implication was that the straight would be open right away. And then within a few hours,

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