Patrick Wintour

in terms of the leadership.

But Trump, I think, is going to have a real job trying to sell what he's managed to negotiate so far, because there are going to be awful connotations of the Barack Obama deal, whereby loads of money was given to the Iranians, and Trump was incredibly critical of that.

And I don't think he's made any progress on the nuclear issues, which

was the Casus Belli.

If you remember, we were told that it was a very imminent threat of a nuclear strike by Iran.

And even though no intelligence assessments coming out of America was endorsing that.

And there were words, you know, to the effect that this will be, in fact, not to the effect, to exact words, was that there will be an unconditional surrender by Iran.

This is not an unconditional surrender.

Yeah, I think if broadly, I think there's four sort of sticking points that were being negotiated over the last few days.

One was the one about the frozen assets, which we've already discussed.

And then you're right, the issue of whether there was going to be a full ceasefire in Lebanon.

The Iranian phrase, it has to be a ceasefire on all fronts.

And Israel's really kicking up very hard there.

about that issue.

And then there's a question of how the Straits of Hormuz are going to be managed in the future.

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman on Monday was saying we're not seeking to impose tolls, but we are thinking of that there could be fees for navigational services.

And the issue there is, are those navigational services something that you can apply for or whether they'll be compulsory, i.e.

it will be at all.

And we're just, it's a distinction without a difference.

We're playing on words.