All right, Alexander, let's talk about the negotiations taking place in Oman between the United

States and Iran, Whitkoff and Kushner, with the foreign minister of Iran, Arachi, and his team.

They were supposed to take place in Turkey.

Then it looked like the talks were going to be canceled.

Then the talks were going to be canceled.

Then the talks were back on again.

Iran asked for a change in the venue and they got it.

The United States wanted the discussions to focus on a list of demands that they had.

Iran wanted the discussions to be focused more on or exclusively on the uranium enrichment nuclear

issue. We ended up getting the meeting. It looks like if you go off of the reports that

the meeting was very, very quick and not much came out of it. At least that's what the

reports are claiming. There are some reports which claim that the United States, one of the

demands, additional demand that the United States threw at Iran, was that they stopped

providing oil to China, which is quite revealing. But your thoughts on

these talks taking place. Yeah, I think you described it very well. I mean, the talks,

the talks have been held because over the last week, there's been intense activity, intense pushback from Russia, but even more from

regional countries, the Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, to try to avoid a conflict between the

United States and Iran. And Israel this time, for its own reasons, is holding back from direct involvement, at least for the moment.

In fact, Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has actually said that back in December, at the end of December,

the Russians broke a deal, a private deal. It's not a formal agreement, but a private deal between the Iranians and the Israelis, that neither would attack the other if the other didn't attack first.

So that was the deal that was done. So in effect, the Americans at the moment are on their own and everybody,

apart probably from the Israelis, actually, were telling them to stop.

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