Gregg Carlstrom

So Iran won't swear it off forever, but it will agree that for a certain period of time, perhaps 10 years, 12 years, they're still negotiating over the exact duration, but Iran would swear it off for a limited amount of time.

And so that is a compromise between the original positions of the two sides.

So on that issue, yes, they have made progress.

On other issues, there are still very big gaps, the biggest of which is Iran's stockpile of more than 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium near weapons grade uranium.

America has been insisting for more than a year that Iran needs to export that ship outside the country to be disposed of.

Iran says we won't do that.

We will dilute it to a lower level of purity inside the country, but we will not send this to a third party.

And that has been a real sticking point in their talks over the past couple of months.

Now, Trump the other day on social media.

seemed to suggest that he was willing to compromise on that.

He said that he could settle for dilution inside of Iran if it was supervised by what he called the Atomic Energy Commission.

Now, it's not clear if he meant the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the UN's nuclear watchdog,

Or if he was thinking of the American Atomic Energy Commission, which is an agency that was actually dismantled back in 1974.

We don't know what he meant by that.

So it seemed as if maybe he was being flexible on that.

But I hesitate to read too much into any one thing that Trump posts on social media these days.

I think many people would argue quite credibly that it hasn't achieved much.

The details of this agreement, yes, in many ways, they sound not dissimilar to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which was the deal that Barack Obama negotiated and signed back in 2015, which, of course, Trump

abandoned and then spent a decade calling the worst deal that America ever signed and promised that he would do something better.

but many of these provisions sound quite similar.