President Trump intimated palpable advancements in the discourse with Iran concerning its nuclear ambitions, portending a potential dénouement within the ensuing 48 hours, a sanguinity at variance with the circumspect assessment of the Omani interlocutor who characterized the yield from the recent quinquennial Roman conclave as "incremental, albeit not definitive," notwithstanding which, Trump underscored the "substantive headway" engendered during the weekend parleys, conducted at the Omani Embassy in Rome, featuring Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Michael Anton, the State Department’s policy planning director, as American plenipotentiaries, the crux of the negotiation pivoting on the curtailment of Iran's nuclear programme in consideration for the United States' revocation of select economic strictures imposed upon the Islamic Republic.