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Hello, this is Hui Jie writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open.

After weeks of insisting that the Iran ceasefire remained intact (despite both sides continuing military strikes during the truce), U.S. President Donald Trump finally acknowledged what had been increasingly difficult to ignore: The situation in the region may be deteriorating again.