00:00Images of military drills by Iran's Revolutionary Guard in the Strait of Hormuz, broadcast on
00:06state television.
00:07The exercises, overseen by General Mohammed Pogpore, aim to prepare the guards for potential
00:13security and military threats in the strait, after the US deployed a large naval force
00:18to the area.
00:19They come a day before a second round of nuclear talks in Switzerland between Iran and the
00:24US.
00:24Iran's foreign minister, who has already had a meeting with the head of the International
00:28Atomic Energy Agency in Geneva, indicated on X that he was ready to achieve a fair and
00:34equitable deal, but added that Iran would not submit to threats.
00:38During a visit to Budapest, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that making a deal with
00:43Tehran will be difficult.
00:45I think if there's an opportunity here to diplomatically reach an agreement that addresses the things
00:52we're concerned about, we will be very open and welcoming to that.
00:55But I don't want to overstate it either.
00:56It's going to be hard.
00:57I mean, we're dealing, you know, it's been very difficult for anyone to do real deals
01:01with Iran because we're dealing with radical Shia clerics who are making theological decisions,
01:06not geopolitical ones.
01:08The two countries resumed talks on the 6th of February in Oman, the first since a 12-day
01:14war in June last year, during which American B-2 bombers hit Iranian nuclear sites.
01:19The negotiations hit a dead end every time when Washington's demand for zero nuclear enrichment
01:25is brought up.
01:26US President Donald Trump is pushing Iran to agree to a deal and has announced that a second
01:31aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford, would depart very soon for the Middle East.
01:36We can't see if there's a lot of local Monaco's communications in a way of going to be in the
01:36We can see your 2030 animal and will fix these all.
01:36It has to be the opposite of the Middle East.
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