All right, everybody. Well, as you know, we have not bombed Iran into the Stone Age, at least the way that Donald Trump threatened if they didn't make the 8 p.m. deadline in order to reopen the Straits of Hormuz. But the reason why that was delayed is because it looks like that there may be some sort of pathway to negotiated settlement. Now, there's two different deals going out there right now. One is the American 15-point plan and one is the Iranian 10-point plan.

And spoiler alert, they don't sync up very well.

But both sides have agreed to work through Pakistan as a moderator in order to see if there's any sort of arrangement that can be made.

And in the meantime, Iran has actually allowed for the Straits of Hormuz to open up in a

limited fashion, which already caused oil prices to be able to drop down to below $100 a barrel.

Now, let's do a quick recap of how we got to this particular place, but then we're going to

dive in specifically on whether or not we think that there's any way that these two plans can come together

in order to achieve something that both sides will agree to. So, as you know, February 28,

26, the U.S. and Israel launched military operations against Iran targeting its nuclear infrastructure.

This was Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow were all struck. In addition to that,

Iran's response was not only the launch of over a thousand ballistic missiles as well as drones

and everything else, but a semi-blockade of the strait of Hormuz, which is about where 20% of the

world's oil supply goes through. That is their biggest leveraging point, right? Any hope that the Iranian regime

had to scare the United States or Israel with their overall military prowess was decimated by the

fact that the United States has actually met significant portions of their objective goals that

were laid out. Again, they had about four specific goals. They wanted to deny Iran nuclear capability. They wanted to prevent them from being able to destabilize the region.

They wanted to prevent them from being able to actively work through and support their

proxies like Hamas, the Houthis, and Hezbollah. They wanted to significantly reduce their

ballistic missile capability. And they, of course, wanted to destroy any sort of hopes of having a nuclear weapon,

right? Now, a lot of this has been achieved, right? The number of missiles that have launched

from Iran toward U.S. or Israeli targets has dropped by about 90% at this point. Their productive

capacity to be able to build more ballistic missiles or more one-way drones is severely limited.

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