All right, Alexander, let's talk about the negotiations with Iran and the United States.

We had the second round of talks between the Iranian foreign minister and Trump's envoy, Steve Whitkoff.

He is now the envoy for Iran as well.

Okay.

He met the foreign minister. He met the foreign minister in Rome, and I believe Oman was continuing to mediate these talks.

And the outlook provided by Arachi, the foreign minister of Iran, was actually very positive.

He did say that things are going well, cautiously optimistic, I believe, were the words that he used.

And we're going to be entering into technical talks in the next coming weeks between the United States and Russia.

What are your thoughts on the negotiations?

Well, in some respects, and we've discussed this before, this should not be an impossibly difficult negotiation.

Because the Iranians have consistently said they don't want

nuclear weapons, and the Americans have consistently said they don't want the Iranians

to acquire nuclear weapons.

So the parties appear to agree on the objective, on the end point. The only thing that separates them is the

means to get there. And the means to get there are now becoming increasingly clear. So the Iranians

give up their existing stockpile of enriched uranium, the stockpile that goes up to 60%.

Apparently, they're handed over to the Russians again. The Americans then lift sanctions.

There is more surveillance of Iran to make sure that they don't resume enrichment in the way

that they had. This agreement, unlike the JCPOA, is indefinite. It has no end point. The JCPOA

was just for 10 years. This agreement would be an indefinite agreement.

The role of the Russians is going to be much bigger this time.

Now we've had an article about this in The Guardian and the article talks about the guarantees

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