00:20Switzerland, right now, the US Vice President is sitting across the table from Iran's top diplomats.
00:27And before a single deal is signed, Iran's President just dropped a bombshell back home.
00:34He says Washington has already lost this round.
00:38All provisions of the memorandum are in our favor.
00:42That's not a guess.
00:43That's what President Masoud Pazeshkian told Iranian state media hours before his delegation walked into the room with J.D.
00:51Vance.
00:52Here's the backdrop.
00:53After a brutal war, Iran and the US are now locked in high-stakes talks in Switzerland, mediated by Pakistan
01:02and Qatar.
01:03Leading Iran's side, Parliament Speaker Mohamed Bagher-Ghalibov and Foreign Minister Abbas Arakshi.
01:10Their stated goal, making sure the interim deal that ended the fighting actually gets honored.
01:16But it's what Pazeshkian said before the talks that's turning heads.
01:21He's claiming a major reversal.
01:24According to Pazeshkian, things Trump publicly ruled out for Iran in a recent speech have now quietly become accepted Iranian
01:33rights, under the table, in the negotiating room.
01:36And at the center of it all?
01:38Enrichment.
01:39Pazeshkian is signaling Iran will not surrender its right to enrich uranium.
01:44His framing is sharp.
01:46He says Iran's real red line was never enrichment itself.
01:50It was always the bomb.
01:52He even evokes Iran's late supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, who repeatedly said Iran does not want a nuclear weapon.
02:01Pazeshkian's message, that was always the line, and that's the only line America actually got Iran to agree to in
02:09writing.
02:09In his words, America said, write this down and sign, and we signed.
02:15Enrichment, in his telling, was never on the table to lose.
02:19There's a financial win attached too.
02:22Pazeshkian says $6 billion of Iranian funds, frozen and sitting in Qatar, will be released as part of this deal.
02:30And he didn't resist a political jab either, predicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be the first to be
02:38unhappy with whatever comes from Switzerland.
02:41But here's the tension underneath it all.
02:44Iran says it's shut the Strait of Hormuz again, citing Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
02:50The U.S. military says the waterway is still open.
02:53Two very different stories, same 24 hours.
02:57So is this confidence, or is Tehran negotiating in public before the ink is even dry?
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