UN Secretary-General Guterres requested in a meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi for a continuation of negotiations to achieve peace, according to Fars News Agency

Historically the sequence in episodes of this kind runs from mediator statements to agreed frameworks to verified de-escalation, and markets have tended to fade the first stage and pay only at the second and third. The relevant transmission for the energy desk is the risk premium embedded in crude, which has repeatedly bled out on talk of continued negotiations and rebuilt only when actual escalation in shipping lanes or infrastructure followed. The distinction that matters is between process language, requests to continue, and substance language, agreed terms, ceasefires, enforcement mechanisms; only the latter has durably repriced the barrel. Worth noting is the sourcing: semi-official Iranian agencies have a track record of framing exchanges to Tehran's advantage, so corroboration from the other side of the meeting is the usual tell. The follow-ons are whether either capital characterises the talks differently and whether any parallel movement appears in nuclear or regional files.