Stuart Livingston-Wallace

We have been here multiple times as recently as last weekend.

We thought maybe we're getting close to a deal.

I will say that the mood music feels a little different this time.

So I'm cautiously optimistic that perhaps we're getting closer there.

And I think the comments we had from Bess Ernst and also from Rubio

And also to some extent from Iran, all points towards the same thing, that there's maybe some issues over some of the language in this MOU.

But broadly speaking, it feels like we're much further forward than we certainly were a couple of weeks ago.

Iran has shown itself to have an exceptionally high pain threshold.

And I suspect does consider this to be an existential moment for the regime and therefore

you know, is not prepared to make a lot of concessions, if any concessions, from what we can see.

They want very much to make a deal.

Iran has shown itself to have an exceptionally high pain threshold.

And I suspect does consider this to be an existential moment for the regime and therefore, you know, is not prepared to make a lot of concessions, if any concessions, from what we can see.

That's certainly unprecedented since the conflict began.

At the same time, he's looked at the storage tanks and the shadows they're casting on Carg Island itself.

Again, incredible work, which suggests that they're probably starting to fill up.

So those two combined certainly suggest, and again, this is based just on the images we can see, the potential they are running out of storage space, they're running out of tankers to put oil on.

We'll see over the next couple of weeks whether that trend persists.

After reading that piece of garbage they sent us, I didn't even finish reading it.

I said, I'm not going to waste my time reading it.