Stuart Livingston-Wallace

I mean, the difficulties that they will have going into this talk are the same difficulties that preceded the war, which is the two sides, and I'm thinking specifically about the US and Iran, are so far apart in terms of what they want to talk about and largely what might constitute an acceptable position for both of them.

You certainly ask interesting questions.

Certainly from the U.S.

side, it's going to be the vice president, along with Wyckoff and Kushner.

From the Iranian delegation, we're not entirely sure yet, although they were supposed to have arrived yesterday.

Again, some vagueness about whether that actually happened.

And it's entirely conceivable that others may join, too.

Clearly, there is huge regional pressure here to get some sort of ceasefire.

I mean, the difficulties that they will have going into this talks are the same difficulties that preceded the war, which is the two sides—and I'm thinking specifically about the U.S.

and Iran—

are so far apart in terms of what they want to talk about and largely what might constitute an acceptable position for both of them.

The clock is ticking.

And really what we're waiting for is proposals to come from Iran for a potential third round of negotiations that's supposed to arrive in the next 10 days or so.

And I guess we're going to see what's in those and whether that's going to be enough to satisfy the US administration.