Hey, from CNN. I'm AfomaDK, with the five things you need to know for Monday, March 30th.

Despite all of the public posturing you hear from the regime and false reporting, talks are continuing and going well.

What is said publicly is, of course, much different than what's being communicated to us privately. That's White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt earlier today on indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran.

She suggested to Iran's comments contradicting what President Donald Trump said earlier about Iran agreeing to most of the U.S.'s 15-point demands,

doesn't reflect what's being said in negotiations.

But it comes as there appears to be some mixed messages on the talks from within the Trump

administration. The White House says Iranian negotiators appear to be more reasonable than the

regime's previous leaders, even though Trump and his team have yet to specify who they're

communicating with. However, on Good Morning America today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this.

Look, there's some fractures going on there internally.

And there are new people now in charge who have a more reasonable vision of the future.

That would be good news for us, for them, for the entire world.

But we also have to be prepared for the possibility, maybe even the probability, that that is not the case.

Meanwhile, oil prices settled at their highest level since the Iran war began.

WTI, the U.S. oil benchmark, rose to $102.88 per barrel.

Brent crude oil, the global benchmark, rose to $112.78.

After surpassing $116 per barrel earlier today, when Trump said in an interview with

the Financial Times that he wanted to, quote, take the oil in Iran and could seize Karg Island,

which handles about 90% of the country's oil exports.

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