US President Trump says he is "not in a hurry" over talks with Iran and there is no time schedule, Al Jazeera reports; he added that economic & military action "are effective"

Statements of this kind sit within the established pattern of US-Iran negotiation cycles, where Washington pairs an open negotiating channel with visible pressure, sanctions enforcement on the economic side and carrier or strike-group posture on the military side, and where each side periodically signals it is under no time pressure. The operative distinction for markets is between rhetoric that merely maintains leverage and rhetoric that forecloses escalation: an explicit 'not in a hurry' framing has historically capped the geopolitical risk premium in crude rather than removed it, since the same message asserts that existing measures are working and therefore stay in place. That second clause matters for the barrel count, as continued sanctions effectiveness implies continued constraint on Iranian export volumes, which is the tangible channel into Brent and WTI spreads and freight and insurance costs for Gulf loadings. In past episodes, crude has tended to trade these headlines through the front of the curve and timespreads rather than the outright flat price, with havens such as gold and the yen reacting only when the military track, rather than the economic one, is the reference point. Worth watching is whether the negotiating counterpart echoes the no-deadline framing, since asymmetric signaling, one side relaxed and the other silent or escalatory, is the configuration that has historically preceded premium rebuilds.