This is The Guardian.

I think we are probably within 24 hours of an agreement.

Trump might just at the last minute bulk because there's so much political backlash to what he's

agreed to do. There were words, you know, that there will be an unconditional surrender by Iran.

This is not an unconditional surrender. And as ever, predicting the next steps of Donald Trump is a

mug's game. Donald Trump is facing a backlash at home over his proposed Iran peace deal.

But as the US carries out fresh airstrikes, could an agreement still be within reach?

From the Guardians today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

Well, joining me is Patrick Wintour, our diplomatic editor.

Patrick, over the weekend, we were hearing positive noises from the White House

about the shape of a deal forming, that the steps were being taken that were close, that we were

within reach. But now there are fresh strikes by the US on southern Iran. What's going on

and what can we read into these mixed messages?

Well, what the American Central Command has said is these were defensive strikes,

which I guess they're trying to mollify the Iranians about what they've done,

but they've claimed it particularly down in the south,

near the street, at Banda Abbas, they have struck what they said was an attempt to set up a kind of missile launchers.

And also there was some evidence that the Iranians were trying to lay further mines in the Strait of Hormuz.

And at the moment, the Iranian reaction is by their standards relatively muted. And I think they're going to try and still focus on getting this deal

rather than going into a kind of mode of saying the ceasefire is over and we're back to fighting.

Yeah, because there has been an insistence from the United States

that talks are still ongoing.

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