Laura Kuenssberg

And the other was that we kept being told that Tehran and Washington, that Iran and the United States, working with Pakistan, would sign a memorandum of understanding, which would bring peace to Iran and the Strait of Hormuz would reopen again.

In terms of the choreography, presumably Donald Trump wants to get this all sorted before he travels to Evian for mineral water and diplomacy at the G7.

He does want those three days for him to look like he has achieved something.

Remarkable.

He's the sort of person as well who likes to time things personally.

So it's his 80th birthday and he's having sort of all sorts of celebrations.

Well, of course.

I mean, who wouldn't?

I mean, I think back to my many birthdays.

No, I've never been in a cage.

Give it time.

But the thing is, to time a big announcement on his birthday is the way he rolls, isn't it?

Although we should say this only started because of Donald Trump.

He's not solving somebody else's conflict.

It's his own conflict and the problems we're all facing in terms of our diesel and petrol prices.

Well, but his supporters say we should have tackled this before.

Because who wants Iran to have a nuclear bomb?

That's how the argument goes.

Of course, and one of his former national security advisors, John Bolton, thinks he should have gone further and should go further now to ensure that Iran is in a far weaker position.

However, we can't characterise him as solving some intractable piece, intractable sort of problem on the world stage.