All right, Alexander, we had the talks in Geneva between the United States and Iran,

Wittkov and Kushner, with Adakshi, the Foreign Minister of Iran.

The early reports were that the U.S. was not happy with what Iran was pitching. The U.S.'s demands to Iran were pretty,

pretty demanding, pretty strict what the U.S. was demanding in order to avoid a conflict,

at least the document that the Wall Street Journal managed to get a hold of.

And then the two parties, they broke for a recess.

They came back and they spoke for a few more hours.

And then the reports were that progress was made and that the atmosphere was a bit

more positive than how it was in the beginning of the day. At least those were the reports that we

got from Oman, as well as from the United States and Iran. But when you dig into the issues that they're both discussing and what they're both

offering, you can still see that they're very far apart, at least on the key issues.

What are your thoughts on where we are with the negotiations?

Well, I think the first point to say is we've had what Donald Trump himself said about

Iran in the State of the Union address.

And his comments about Iran was so overwhelmingly hostile.

I mean, he called them terrible people. He spoke of them as being sinister. He gave it,

he made it fairly clear that he doesn't accept that the government in Iran has any legitimacy.

He spoke about how Iran is an actual danger to the United States itself.

I have to say that to me, reading those words, I wonder how important these negotiations

ultimately really were.

Because as you rightly say, the Americans came to these

negotiations with a set of demands so extreme that it was impossible to the, that the Iranians

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