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The official makes it very clear that there's no deal that's going to be signed that day or even in the next few days.

Talking about how difficult it is to reach the Supreme Leader because he's in hiding and that they need his sign-off.

But there wasn't even a document at that point Sunday morning for the Supreme Leader to sign.

And another important thing that the official reveals on this call is that one of the most important sticking points for the U.S., which is the disposal of this highly enriched uranium, there was no agreed upon mechanism by which that would be disposed of.

Whether the U.S.

would take it, whether the Iranians would give it to a third party, whether the Iranians would destroy it in the presence of international observers.

Key questions about a key part of this issue.

memorandum of understanding had not yet been figured out, let alone all the other contentious issues that were being punted down the road.

Right.

And the president then starts lashing out at his critics on Sunday afternoon on Truth Social, where he says, don't listen to the losers who are critical about something they know nothing about, and says it isn't even fully negotiated yet.

So both conceding that they're still working through the negotiations and hitting back at critics who are concerned about the direction in which these negotiations are headed.

And Trump adds a whole nother wrinkle to these already complicated negotiations.

On Monday morning, the president says that he's mandatorily requesting that all countries immediately sign the Abraham Accords.

So these are agreements that started in the president's first term, in which several Arab countries signed on to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel.

But in this particular moment, it throws a wrench into already complicated negotiations between several Arab countries, the United States and Iran,

And the president is asking Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan to sign on to these agreements that many of them have no interest in doing and others that were in conversations about signing them in earlier phases lost interest after October 7th and Israel's response in Gaza.

So this is basically a non-starter.

For many of these countries.

But for Trump, it serves two purposes.

One, it is helping to mollify some of his Republican critics like Lindsey Graham, who see this as a way to get out of the war and remake the Middle East.