This is The Guardian.

Just before the markets opened, he decided to make this announcement.

As ever, it's Armageddon postponed, so we have to live on this sort of the edge the whole time.

No, we have a very serious chance of making a deal.

That doesn't guarantee anything. I'm not guaranteeing anything. If I were a betting man,

I'd bet for it. But again, I'm not guaranteeing anything. I think maybe the Americans are discovering

that the Iranians are willing to go further up the escalation ladder. There isn't any sign that

they're fracturing as a regime.

They're taking big, big hits, but they are aimed at one thing which is survival.

Trump says there's been productive talks with Iran as he extends a deadline on military strikes

to force the reopening of the straight-up moves. But what's really going on?

From The Guardians today in focus,

this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff. I'm joined by Patrick Winter, the Guardian's diplomatic editor.

Thanks for joining us again, Patrick. So quite a lot of confused messaging coming out of the White

House over the weekend. We've had a post from the President

Trump this morning on true social, his social media platform, saying that he has postponed

strikes on Iranian power plants because of talks between the US and the Iranians. But that came

not long after this ultimatum of 48 hours for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hamoos.

So obviously quite a convoluted picture there, but I wonder if you can help clarify if that's possible.

Unravel all this.

Well, there was a very good tweet by the FTs, Washington correspondent Edward Luce,

said it's a rather odd situation where we have to wait to see what Tehran's saying before we understand the truth of the matter because trying to work out what Trump has done and we're all living in his headspace is kind of quite grueling activity but it certainly seems that just before the market opened, and I think that's significant,

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