President Trump, with characteristic ebullience, intimated a substantive rapprochement with Iran regarding its nuclear ambitions, portending a potential dénouement within the biennium; this bullish assessment, however, is qualified by the circumspect appraisal of the Omani interlocutor, who characterized the advancements yielded from the fifth Roman parley as incremental, albeit far from definitive, a divergence notwithstanding Trump's emphasis on the "palpable headway" purportedly achieved during the weekend's confabulations, wherein Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and State Department policy architect Michael Anton, representing the U.S. delegation at the Omani Embassy in Rome, endeavoured to broker a quid pro quo entailing the attenuation of Iran's nuclear proliferation in exchange for a calibrated rollback of extant U.S. economic sanctions.