hamidreza: to my understanding we are closer than any other time.se at some point we were actually witnessing kind of mexico must -- maximalist demands on the iranian side, w hich were somehow not accepted by the u.s. side. but as we heard recently, on issues like the irgc or other points, i think iran has made a lot of, a series of reasonable concessions, and that is reason the eu foreign policy chief has called iran's response reasonable. so at this moment, i think the statement was in important that he mentioned that it's up to the united states now to decide. because whatever the european side could do, i think they have already done. as was mentioned before, it's kind of a final offer, taking into account the basic positions on both sides. so that is now the situation. it's very much up to the united states to come up with a response. laura: it is generally excepted the ball is in the u.s.'s court, but is by installing? -- but is biden stalling? alex: there is a lot of politics around this issue in washington and tehran. in tehran, the presiden