English transcript

What's interesting, though, is we just heard there from Hegsef talking about Iran knowing

the terms of the deal that the U.S. wants to strike.

Now, the U.S., as far as we know, had previously set out various things it was willing to negotiate

on.

This included, for example, essentially the end of Iran's any ambitions of a nuclear program,

severe reduction in its missile capacity as well.

Iran, though, has previously said that it wants, for example, negotiations around having

sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz in the way that it has at the moment, or wants to

negotiate around compensation for the damage that has been done during this war.

So it does seem that we are hearing these increasingly contradictory statements about

what potential terms of negotiations may be, but also whether talks are actually even happening

at the moment.

Pete Hegsef doubled down on the U.S.'s claim that talks are ongoing, that there's constructive

progress underway, but all that we've heard out of Iran so far suggests that there aren't

even any formal negotiations that have started so far.