CNN: The End of Ceasefire Is a ‘Shadow of a Threat,’ ‘Pressure Points’ for Iranians

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ROBERTSON: “And the ceasefire was due to expire, according to the Pakistanis, right in this hour. So what the president has done here by extending the ceasefire potentially does get the Iranians back engaged, potentially does allow the vice president to come to talks because the Iranians may actually come this time. If we listen to what the Iranians have been saying over the recent couple of days, their foreign minister, the sort of number two in the negotiating team has said very recently that it is essentially a war crime that the United States is maintaining the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and the Iranian ports. President Trump was very clear in his TRUTH Social post he‘s not lifting the blockade, right, that‘s one thing. The main lead negotiator, the speaker in parliament from the Iranian side, has said that Iran wasn‘t going to come to the table and negotiate under the shadow of a threat. Well, it always seemed like the end of the ceasefire was going to be essentially that shadow, that cloud over the Iranians' head, that this was going to be pressure points on them in any talks. Now, that is the thing that President Trump seems to have removed in the equation here.”