Oliver Conway

And what is it?

We're making significant progress.

You repeated that again.

But he also gave more details, interestingly, about the kind of concessions he says Iran is willing to make for the very first time.

For example, that it will not accumulate uranium.

So no more stockpiling.

of enriched uranium.

He offered other details as well, but he had a caveat.

He emphasised we need more time, a bit more time, as he put it, to make a deal.

But Ollie, the message we've been getting from President Trump is that his clock is counting down.

So will the Amani foreign minister's meeting with the US vice president make any difference?

It's interesting why did he go to see J.D.

Vance?

J.D.

Vance in recent days said there's no way that we're going to get bogged down in a war of many years.

He's seen as the person close to President Trump who's really close to the base, the Make America Great Again base who don't want another war.

So perhaps the Omani foreign minister felt he's the person I needed to make the argument to, that the way to avoid a war is to really double down and continue to focus on diplomacy.

That while President Trump has a penchant for the short, sharp, easy, successful deals, this deal is going to take, well, it could take a lot more time.

And yet, at the same time, US personnel being told to leave the region.

So the threat definitely hasn't gone away.