Hello, I'm Edward Carr, the Economist Deputy Editor,
and welcome back to the Insider from our studios in London.
A fragile truce has been reached between Washington and Tehran after weeks of bombing
and a threat from Donald Trump that Iran's whole civilization would die
if the Strait of Hormuz wasn't reopened.
Now, both sides have rushed to declare victory,
but the deal looks really shaky and much remains to be settled.
So today we want to ask what the ceasefire really means,
and to discuss this I'm joined by Charlotte Howard,
our executive editor and New York bureau chief.
And Nick Pelham, our Iran expert, and down the line from Doha, Greg Carlstrom, our Middle East correspondent.
Welcome to all of you, and thank you.
Now, I want to understand, very briefly, where the ceasefire lies, and then to answer three questions.
What this means for Iran, what it means for the region,
and more broadly, what it means for the future of US foreign policy.
And that should help us answer the question that we posed to our viewers last night,
which is, who's the winner of this war?
Now, 7,000 of you answered, and this is what you said.
By far the biggest category was none of the above with over 60%.
Of the three combatants, Iran was the biggest winner with just 21%.