Andrew England

So he responds that the U.S.

military fires strikes Iran.

Iran then has to respond because it doesn't want to be seen to be caving to US pressure.

So it attacks US bases in the region, in Jordan, in Kuwait, in Bahrain.

Because the Iranians respond, then the Americans respond again.

And so then the Iranians respond again.

So the pattern was repeated overnight on Wednesday, Thursday.

And so you're in this escalatory cycle all the time.

There are still negotiations going on.

So Wednesday, a Qatari team was in Tehran to try and finalize this deal that Trump said was close to being finalized.

They would only have gone if they had American assurances that one, Tehran was about to get bombed and two, the U.S.

was still serious about a deal.

And so they were there.

Now, I was told this morning that they came out.

So this morning being Thursday, I was told that they came out and they made good progress.

They had breakthroughs.

And then Trump issues his true social post saying, we're going to bomb them again.

And we're going to take over Clark Island, which is where 90% of Iran's oil is uploaded in the near future.

So now I'm wondering, okay, so is there progress?

Was there progress?