Senior source says mediators conveyed Washington’s response to the Iranian Foreign Minister, Al Arabiya reports

The detail that talks have moved to sequencing, who acts first and under what guarantees, is the genuinely informative part: sequencing disputes have been the point at which comparable negotiation tracks have stalled, since neither side has historically been willing to take the first irreversible step without verified reciprocity. The reported seven-point plan requiring fundamental changes reads as a maximalist opening position rather than a basis for imminent agreement, and prior episodes of this kind have tended to oscillate between constructive framing and public condition-setting. The transmission channel on confirmed movement here runs through crude, via supply expectations for Iranian barrels and the risk premium attached to Gulf transit, with tanker insurance and regional freight reacting ahead of any formal accord. The tells worth noting are whether the other party confirms the characterisation, whether official rather than sourced commentary follows, and whether any sanctions or enforcement posture shifts materialise. As a single-sourced mediator account, it sits in the category of signals that has historically faded without corroboration.