Richard Arnold

Some expert advice for you shortly.

News Talks at B. Morning, it's seven past seven, so is this the week finally a US-Iran deal gets over the line, eh?

There's the question.

The US President with some upbeat remarks.

Yesterday, the term largely negotiated was used.

Geoffrey Price, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, back with us.

Geoffrey, morning to you.

Very well indeed.

You're any more optimistic this time around than any other time?

There was a lot of signals from both sides that they were hopeful, but maybe more hopeful than realistic.

I mean, there was a call that the president had with a bunch of leaders in the Gulf, and the signals were that they were close to an MOU, a memorandum of understanding, which would basically say,

Most importantly, end the blockage of the Straits of Hormuz and have a ceasefire on all fronts.

But it looks like we're not there yet.

Do you think we'll get there?

Is there enough that you're seeing and feeling that we're close enough to say in days a week or so we're there?

The last mile in these negotiations is always the hardest one.

And it sounds like, among other things, what happened was there was some political pushback both in Iran and in the United States from critics.

In Iran, I think there's some right-wingers who say that Iran has got a great new tool of leverage in the states of Hormuz and should not

give that up easily.

There's also a question of whether it would be a ceasefire or a peace.