Iran’s offer puts Trump on the spot as Netanyahu pushes harder, with Oman talks, new US sanctions and the nuclear standoff back in the spotlight. Right, so Donald Trump is being offered a way out and it’s the kind of way out that makes powerful people uncomfortable because it forces them to admit what this has really all been about. Iran’s atomic chief, Mohammad Eslami, is saying fine, talk nuclear only, talk dilution of that sixty per cent stockpile, but lift every sanction in return and stop pretending this is a negotiation if you’re still tightening the noose while you talk. But here’s the bit that really matters: Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington pushing for the exact opposite, widening the demands until there’s no deal left to sign, and Pete Hegseth is telling Iran to “make the wise choice” turning diplomacy into little more than a drunken threat. So in the next few minutes I’m going to walk you through the mechanics of the offer, the trap it sets for the US and Israel, and why the next escalation, if it comes, won’t be something that “just happened,” it’ll be a decision made in full view, with an offramp for Iran already sitting there, being ignored by the mainstream media on purpose. Right, so Mohammad Eslami has put a simple condition on the table and it has the annoying quality to the US and Israel of being clearly coherent. He has said Iran could consider diluting its stockpile of uranium enriched to sixty per cent if all sanctions are lifted in return. He has also said exporting uranium is not on the agenda. Donald Trump is trying to posture as the man of deals while keeping the boot on Iran’s throat, and the two instincts can’t both run the show at the same time. The American state wants Iran to accept a “zero enrichment” position, and it wants the kind of “bigger deal” that strips out missiles and allies and anything else that makes Iran hard to hit. Iran is saying no on everything except the nuclear file, and it is putting a price on even that, and the price is sanctions relief. Head of Iran’s National Security Council, Ali Larijani has walked into Muscat with that message and he has done it with deliberate timing. He has met Sultan Haitham bin Tariq in Muscat for nearly three hours and then held talks with Omani Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, and the visit is being explicitly tied to the first round of indirect talks between the United States and Iran on nuclear and sanctions-related issues hosted by Oman days earlier.