Thanks for doing this.

Thank you for having me.

Is this deal real?

I think so.

I think this is a significant achievement,

but nothing is fully real until they manage to get to the final agreement.

And we already have a precedent in which we also see that when there was a final

agreement, which there was in 2015 that Obama struck, it didn't mean that it necessarily would last

because Trump walked out of that deal. So if this is something we want, we have to work at it.

We have to work to keep it. These things are not part of the background that you can keep

without putting any effort into it. And right now, we're not even halfway to the distance, but this is an important development. So what are the key deal points as they're emerging, to the extent we know now? Yeah. First of all, we don't know enough because at the end of the day, there's been just so many different versions that have been floating around. Yes. And some of them, frankly, do seem to be sabotage efforts.

There's some of the hardline media in Iran that has been sending out these versions of the deal

that I think deliberately were trying to raise people expectations

in order to make the final deal look bad.

And they're doing it because they're trying to sabotage.

The Piedari faction in Iran, super hardliners are dead set against it.

In fact, there were protests that they organized, not huge ones in any way, shape,

or form, particularly for a city of 10 million or plus in Tehran.

But they were protesting outside of the Iranian foreign ministry and calling for the death

of the foreign minister and the Speaker of the Parliament who've been negotiating this deal. So we should not for a second forget that there's a faction in Iran that is really against this. But based on what it seems likely to have included, there's going to be an opening of the straits, it's going to take some time. You know, they have to do some demining, etc. to be able to safe. The U.S. is going to lift its blockade of the blockade, which I think ultimately complicated this matter much more so than help the U.S. I think there will be some release of funds, but it will be done in a manner in which Trump can say that he never released the funds. And the Iranians can say they got some of their money back.

And it's going to be something that some of the GCC countries do in the middle

to make sure that there's some money going to the Iranians while they're waiting

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