Nosheen Iqbal

So, I mean, without pointing out the fact that the US has won a victory and something that wasn't a problem when it first began this war, like reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which was, of course, open before it began attacking Iran.

How did we get to this moment?

I mean, I'm thinking particularly of Pakistan as a peace broker, which has also conducted its own skirmishes on the border with Afghanistan since these talks began.

I mean, how has that happened?

And yeah, what role is Pakistan playing?

Suggested he was nominated for a Peace Prize.

Well, Julian, from a diplomatic and political perspective, there is a lot of focus on the sort of pantomime of Trump in this, on oil prices, on energy prices, on the performance of the stock market.

But when it comes to the actual true cost of this war to the Iranians, to the Iranian people, can you tell me what that's looked like over the last three months?

And it's the civilian infrastructure as well, right?

And I'm thinking about, you know, the water reservoirs that have been taken out, the Minab school bombing, the bridges that have been bombed.

And as you've said, in the south of Lebanon, entire villages being completely razed to the ground.

The question of Lebanon, of course, is quite important here.

It's quite complicated because Israel say that they're not going to be withdrawing their military from the region.

And I wonder if that's the case, then how contingent is this deal on the situation there between Israel and Lebanon?

Nonetheless, this process is now rolling and we're due to see a memorandum signed on Friday, which will then kick off, I believe, 60 days of intensive technical talks in which you imagine that Iran's nuclear deal or lack thereof, the question of sanctions will be discussed.

Julian, how much faith do you have in those talks and what exactly, what else is on the table there?

I mean, he criticized Obama's deal to the nth degree and now has a worse one.

And in the meantime, we've had this absolute devastation in the region, complete instability.

Nonetheless, Julian, we know that the Trump administration will declare this as a victory, irrespective of actually the reality of that.

And can you just, I guess, tell me the situation for the US?