Patrick Wintour

Okay.

So the tensions inside Iran are palpable.

And the president in a speech yesterday, we have to be prepared for some very, very tough decisions ahead.

So I think he's aware of what they're going to have, the sacrifices they're asking of the Iranian people.

And that was one of the conflicts about if you let the Internet back on, will the debate start inside Iran about the political direction of the country?

Well, I think it makes it more likely whatever deal there is, is quite vague and it leaves, defers all some of the more complex issues for later.

Because I think if the pressure is such that they've got to reach a deal, then the way to deal with the conflicts they've got over various things, such as the Strait of Hormuz, is to fudge it really, in essence.

And then deal with them later over 60 days.

There's various timetables booked into this negotiation, including 60 days to deal with the nuclear issue.

And that's sort of known.

But I think what you try to do is really leave it as vague as possible.

And even you don't publish the memorandum.

This is The Guardian.

I think we are probably within 24 hours of an agreement.

Trump might just at the last minute balk because there's so much political backlash to what he's agreed to do.

There were words, you know, that there will be an unconditional surrender by Iran.

This is not an unconditional surrender.

And as ever, predicting the next steps of Donald Trump is a mug's game.

Well, what the American Central Command has said is these were defensive strikes, which I guess they're trying to mollify the Iranians about what they've done.

But they've claimed, particularly down in the south, near the strait at Banda Abbas, they have struck what they said was an attempt to set up a kind of missile launchers.