Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said it has been difficult to see any measurable direction or traction in President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Iran.
The president secured a 60-day ceasefire extension with Iran in June. York said that since then, it’s been a similar process to what Americans saw before that memorandum was reached.
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“What the president said kind of reminds you of the things he was saying in the weeks that led up to the memorandum of understanding, which was that, ‘We’re almost there, it’s just around the corner, it’ll be really soon,’ and then it took quite a long time,” York said on Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Baier on Friday.
York’s comments are in response to Trump’s interview with CNBC on Thursday.
“We are negotiating, and we will see whether or not I think they’ve agreed to just about everything we need,” Trump said. “Every night we were taking ships out through the South, which is the furthest point from where they have their little weapons,” he continued.
York argued that this type of wording makes it challenging to measure growth in the negotiations.
“I think we’re 16 days into this 60-day period, and it’s hard to see that any real progress has been made,” York said.
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York said Americans are left wondering about the center of these developments, which is the Strait of Hormuz, and in turn, its relation to the global oil market. The Strait’s closure is impacting prices at the pump.
“The key issue in all of this is what’s going to happen to the Strait of Hormuz?” York said.
