Rudyard Griffiths

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Mike Pompeo, Victoria Newland, Stephen Waltz, John Mearsheimer on the question, do not go hunting monsters, i.e.

the United States and the Trump administration doing something very similar here.

Iran.

And that's where I want to go with you off the top of today's show.

Another strange kind of ping pong week.

A lot of maybe, frankly, kind of irresponsible reporting in the media, especially from the Gulf region with false reports of imminent breakthroughs that then

have to be retracted and recanted by regional media outlets.

Where do you think that we've ended this week?

Are we any closer to a deal?

There are just so many mixed messages in so many directions, not only from the Trump administration, but obviously from the Iranian government.

And from these so-called, you know, interlocutors, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, you name it.

It is a cacophony out there.

And can you make sense of it all for us?

It seems, Janice, that the irresolvable issue continues to be the uranium stockpiles inside Iran.

Again, if we are to believe Iranian media, the Supreme Leader Khamenei, the son of the

I don't know what the correct word is.

I would probably say assassinated leader at the start of this war.

Yeah, that's right.