{"id":429486,"date":"2026-04-13T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/iran-thought-they-were-close-to-an-agreement-on-sunday-morning-report\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:40:08","slug":"iran-thought-they-were-close-to-an-agreement-on-sunday-morning-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/iran-thought-they-were-close-to-an-agreement-on-sunday-morning-report-429486\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran thought they were close to an agreement on Sunday morning &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/13\/iran-uranium-enrichment-moratorium-talks-vance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">report <\/a>from Axios&#8217; Barak Ravid says Iran was caught off guard by JD Vance leaving talks in Pakistan. Iran thought they were close to an agreement on Sunday morning, he says.<\/p>\n<p>The main sticking points were differences over Iran&#8217;s nuclear program and whether Iran will agree not to enrich uranium at all and give up its existing stockpile. Iran wants to down-blend it in order to continue to use it in its civilian reactors.<\/p>\n<p>The US proposed a 20-year moratorium on enrichment and Iran suggested a &#8216;single digit&#8217; one instead.<\/p>\n<p>The report says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pakistani, Egyptian and Turkish mediators are now trying to bridge the remaining gaps and reach a deal to end the war before the ceasefire ends on April 21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US official cited in the repot says there is continued engagement and Iran thought Vance leaving was a stunt.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Iranians were pissed off about that press conference,&#8221; a source with knowledge said.    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report also cites Turkey&#8217;s foreign minister who said an extension of the ceasefire of 45-60 days could be considered. In terms of markets, it would be critical that the Strait was opened during that period.<\/p>\n<p>Oil ticked lower on this report.<\/p>\n<p>For me, there just has to be some kind of possible common ground here, particularly if Iran&#8217;s funds are released, Lebanon is halted, sanctions are removed, there are peace guarantees and Iran&#8217;s missile program is left alone. I&#8217;d imagine some of that is tough for the US to swallow but Trump is framing this as all about nuclear, which is what he needs for domestic spin. I can&#8217;t imagine Iran grandstanding on nuclear when they&#8217;ve previously given it up in the JCPOA. In fact, this agreement is likely to look much like the JCPOA.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from Axios&#8217; Barak Ravid says Iran was caught off guard by JD Vance leaving talks in Pakistan. Iran thought they were close to an agreement on Sunday morning, he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}