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Jeffrey, let's have a chat about what's going on here with the negotiations and the ceasefire.

What is holding this up?

There is some talk that it may be $24 billion in frozen assets Iran wants, but Trump doesn't want to give them.

If Donald Trump doesn't manage to get the uranium out of Iran, has he lost?

Jeffrey, what's stopping them?

Why are they spending all this time trying to make one?

Could they not just go to a friendly country and buy one?

What do you reckon is going on with Moshtaba Khamenei?

Is he alive and compass-mentous?

Okay.

Now, you've spent a career studying international crises.

What are you looking for in the next week, two weeks, month, or whatever it is, which will tell you whether Trump is actually going to get what he wants out of this?

Okay, so we're in for a long haul.

Hey, Jeffrey, thank you so much.

It's been great to chat to you.

Look after yourself.

It's Jeffrey Price, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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