Bill Maher takes aim at Trump over Iran peace deal and claims to know real reason for ceasefire

 Comedian Bill Maher said President Donald Trump's ceasefire deal with Iran was to 'save face.' 

Maher often takes stabs at the Republican leader, and on his show Friday night he ridiculed Trump's ceasefire deal with Iran as ahead of peace deal talks starting today. 

'Apparently, this agreement we have, we have to save face and not kill everybody in Iran by pretending that [the Strait of Hormuz] is open,' he said on his Real Time show on HBO 

'Although it's kind of not. Iran is charging a toll. It’s $2 million to get in. Same as Disneyland,' he joked. 

The Iran war has led to Iranians effectively shuttering the Strait of Hormuz through which 20 percent of the world's oil supplies are shipped - a point of contention for Trump, who demanded on Easter that the country 'open the f**kin' Strait.' 

'It’s still all about this Strait of Hormuz, where we get all the oil, we need the oil,' Maher said on his show. 

'We have a ceasefire. We have a ceasefire, whatever that means. Yes, we came to an agreement with Iran. We agreed to stop bombing them, and they agreed to start being bombed, so, you know, it’s kind of mutual,' he joked. 

However, on Friday, Trump warned the Middle Eastern country to hurriedly come to a peace deal or risk him ending the ceasefire deal with a launch of new attacks.   

'We're going to find out in about 24 hours. We're going to know soon,' Trump told the New York Post after dispatching Vice President JD Vance to Pakistan to lead peace talks.

It's his latest salvo in a string of ultimatums against the Islamic Republic that has defined the President's handling of the war.

'We have a reset going. We're loading up the ships with the best ammunition, the best weapons ever made - even better than what we did previously, and we blew them apart,' he said.

'And if we don't have a deal, we will be using them, and we will be using them very effectively.'

On Saturday, two US destroyers have passed through the Strait of Hormuz as part of a freedom-of-navigation mission. 

It was the first time in six weeks that American warships passed through, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

The destroyers were not escorting commercial ships.

The transit comes as the US and Iran began face-to-face negotiations on Saturday in Pakistan, days after a fragile, two-week ceasefire was announced. 

The White House confirmed the direct nature of the talks. 

Iran's state-run news agency said three-party talks had begun after Iranian preconditions, including a reduction in Israeli strikes on Southern Lebanon, and after US and Iranian officials met separately with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

The US delegation is being led by Vance, along with Steve Witkoff, the special envoy, and Jared Kushner, who is President Donald Trump's son-in-law. 

The Iranian delegation is being led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.

The two are discussing how to advance the ceasefire already threatened by deep disagreements and Israel's continued attacks against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, a terrorist group, in Lebanon.