Untangle this if you can.
Trump says talks are happening right now. Iran says there are no talks.
Pakistan backs Iran.
And CBS sources say both are technically right, because nothing is direct and everything moves through mediators.
Meanwhile the adviser to the Supreme Leader declared there is no ceasefire at all and drew a line through the water:
"Even if an American warship tries to pass through, we'll hit it."
Brandon came on at the end of this chaotic day to help make sense of it all.
Why a famous former Iranian foreign minister just published a piece practically begging Tehran's hardliners to take the deal.
Why this moment is starting to look like Suez in 1956, the day the world realized an empire had changed.
And the story Brandon has been digging into for his book, citing a fresh Wall Street Journal report, about what China pulled off at the Panama Canal while every eye in Washington was fixed on Iran.
One deadline, two versions of reality, and a canal on the other side of the world that may matter more than either...
@WeTheBrandon
