I'm Dan Kurtz-Falen, and this is the Foreign Affairs Interview.
Clearly, at this point in time, Iran has agreed to reopen the strait,
but only on its own terms, which is fundamentally stunning.
That is an outcome that the regime might have hoped for,
but its ability to prevail and to continue to control the straits even after the end of the conflict would be a complete strategic
rebalancing for the region and, frankly, for the United States.
I'm Justin Vogt, executive editor of Foreign Affairs.
Dan is away this week.
On Tuesday night, as the world held its collective breath,
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire with Iran just hours after warning that,
quote, a whole civilization will die, end quote, if the Iranian regime did not completely open the Strait of Hormuz.
In exchange for a cessation of American and Israeli strikes.
Iran has now agreed to allow oil and gas and other commodities to pass through the strait for two weeks
and to stop its own attacks on its neighbors, giving both sides time to negotiate a more comprehensive peace deal.
But many of the details of the ceasefire remain unclear, as do its chances of holding.
A war that began with Trump's call for regime change,
now seems destined to leave the Iranian regime in place, emboldened and more certain of its resilience than ever before.
Suzanne Maloney is vice president of the Brookings Institution and director of its foreign policy program.
She has helped craft U.S. Middle East policy,
serving in positions in the White House and the State Department across multiple administrations.