From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.
On Monday, the U.S.
And Iran exchanged attacks and increasingly fiery rhetoric for the third day in a row,
leaving both sides on the verge of a full-blown return to the war.
Today, my colleague David Sanger explains what brought us to this point
and what this new phase tells us about how difficult it will be for the war to end.
Tuesday, July 14th.
David Sanger, welcome back to The Daily.
Good to be with you, Rachel.
David, the last time we had you on the show,
Iran and the United States had just reached what felt like at the time to be quite a shaky ceasefire.
We knew that the agreement had been pretty rushed.
And since then, it feels like everything has basically just fallen apart.
The U.S. Just announced a blockade of Iranian ports.
It's going into effect Tuesday afternoon.
And so I guess my first question is, is the agreement that we last talked to you about even still in effect?
There's not much of it left.
We all suspected, Rachel, that this agreement had the seeds of its own destruction built in.
But I think even the most cynical about how the Iranians
and the Americans would interpret it differently did not expect it to fall apart quite as quickly as it did.