Donald Trump wants a ‘quick end’ to the war more than Iran: John Lyons | ABC NEWS

U .S.President Donald Trump has signaled that he is poised to make a final decision about an agreement between U .S.and Iranian negotiators to extend a ceasefire for a further 60 days.So if finalized, the deal would mark the most significant diplomatic breakthrough since the war began.

concluded a meeting with his top advisers.Any details to come out of those meetings?

Well, Fauzi, it looks like we are getting closer to the end of the war, although we have many times thought that that was the case and then something has happened and there's been complications.But President Trump is certainly more enthusiastic and optimistic than he has been in the past.He says that many of the key issues have been resolved between the two.However, there's one or two outstanding issues which he thinks could be resolved very soon.He's been meeting this afternoon here at the White House in Washington in the Situation Room with his national security team going through Iran's, what Iran's prepared to agree to.And he has put on Truth Social that he talks about our amazing and unprecedented naval blockade, he says.

which will now be lifted, may start the process of heading home.And he says, say hello, this is to the forces, US forces in the Middle East, say hello to your wives, husbands, parents and families from me, your favourite president.He then says the enriched material, he's talking about uranium enriched material there, will be unearthed by the United States, which it is agreed is the only country, along with China, with the mechanical capability of doing so.In close coordination and conjunction with the Islamic Republic.of Iran plus the International Atomic Energy Agency and destroyed.Very interesting to have the president talking about the International Atomic Energy Agency being involved in this and also talking about China's capability.

The significance of talking about the International Atomic Energy Agency is, of course, they were central to their plan that President Obama had worked out with Iran some years ago about monitoring And this is the first time President Trump's really talked about the fact that the IAEA will be monitoring, which essentially mirrors the deal done by President Obama a few years ago, which raises the question, why all of this war, why all of this crisis to the international energy market, if they end up essentially signing a deal very similar to the one done by President Obama, which President Trump tore up?

Just going back to his words on social media, John, it seemed like it was a done deal, or this agreement is a done deal.But the Iranians are sort of saying, no, we're still negotiating here.Is it a case where the U .S.president is trying to put forth a confident perception on this agreement in order for it to actually happen?

Well, there's an element to that, I think, Fauzi, and that we've seen this pattern with Donald Trump that he'll often say these things which are not accurate, they're not true, almost as part of his negotiating method, as if almost as if he thinks if he says these things, then they will happen.It'll encourage the other side to do these things.We've seen many times on this Iran war that he has said these things and then the Iranians have said these things.know anything about this.Now there are differences within Tehran.There are different factions inside Iran.

There's the hardliners, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the military people essentially.And then there's the more political people from a political background.So sometimes that explains the confusion from the Iranian side of things.But it does look like both sides are going to want an end to this war.However, in my assessment at the moment, President Trump wants a quick end to this war more than the Iranian leadership, because they can see that President Trump is suffering here politically.His polling is very bad.

There's the midterm elections coming.I think the Iranians are watching that with great interest and thinking we can really cause some harm here to the Trump administration if we drag the chain on all of this, if we make it go as slowly as possible.