Trump Ready to Ease Iran Sanctions, Unfreeze Assets for Nuclear Progress

The signal here is structural rather than diplomatic: Washington is pairing a hard precondition on the nuclear file with a concrete sanctions-and-assets offer, which is the first time in this item that relief is explicitly on the table as a bargaining chip. That matters most for oil and shipping markets, where Iranian supply and frozen funds have been a persistent overhang, and for regional counterparties watching whether intermediary channels produce anything durable. The open question is whether the nuclear precondition remains a gate or becomes a negotiating variable.