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Over the next few days, we'll probably have a signing maybe in Europe. And has the Supreme Leader approved this deal, sir? I understand the answer is yes. I understand the answer is yes. Now, would it surprise you to learn that is not true? A senior Iranian official tells MSNOW Iran has not agreed to anything. State media reported the same thing. But oil prices fell and stocks rose on Trump's guarantees. That's pretty much exactly what happened the nearly 40 previous times Donald Trump promised a peace deal was this close. This whole thing has been impossible to follow, even for professionals like us that have to follow it for a living. The fundamental issue here is that there is a real crisis. It is produced by Donald Trump with help from Netanyahu. There are real bombs falling, real people dying, like the Iranian schoolgirls whose school was destroyed on the first day of Trump's war by American weapons, and the 13 American service members who've died, and the Indians who died at sea, not to mention drinking water plants being bombed in the past day, attacks the military called self-defense strikes, and retaliation for downing of a U.S. helicopter. All of this is real. Except to Donald Trump, who is incapable of seeing this crisis as anything other than a PR issue. And he cannot understand why his incessant, self-contradictory jawboning isn't getting him better press. Thank you.