Good evening from New York. I'm Ali Velsci and for Chris Hayes. We're now 48 hours into a two-week ceasefire in the U.S. war on Iran.

At least we are in theory, if not on paper anywhere, that you or I or anyone else could see.

Because in a normal ceasefire, in a normal world, you'd be able to see things progressing

toward peace. You wouldn't see what's happening in Lebanon where the deadliest attacks of the

war are taking place, as Israeli bombs continue to devastate that country, killing hundreds

and displacing tens of thousands of people. You should be seeing free and open commerce instead

of the 20% of the

world's gas and oil supply that's still being held in limbo by an Iranian-controlled choke point

in the Strait of Hormuz. In short, you should be seeing peace taking hold during a ceasefire. So

it's fair to ask if that's even what we have here.

The parties in this conflict don't even agree on what they apparently agreed to.

Normally, instead of all this back and forth, we could all just look at the ceasefire in writing to see what it says.

But there's nothing to look at.

When he announced the deal on Tuesday, Donald Trump posted, quote, we received a 10-point proposal from Iran and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.

Iran followed that by releasing what it says was that 10-point agreement, and almost as soon as it was reported, the White House called that fake news.

The Pakistani prime minister, who brokered the deal between Iran and the United States on Tuesday night,

described it as, quote, an immediate ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon and elsewhere, effective immediately. End quote, those were his words. Iran said that was their understanding, too.

But then Israel just kept on striking Lebanon, and U.S. officials like

Vice President J.D. Vance played it all off as some sort of misunderstanding.

First of all, I actually think, and there's a lot of bad faith negotiation and a lot of bad faith

propaganda going on, I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding.

I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't. We never made

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