American and Iranian officials announced they have agreed in principle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while Iran disposes of its highly enriched uranium. The phrasing alone tells you everything. 'In principle' is what diplomats say when they want credit for imagining a solution without doing the work to make it real.
Both sides described the same talks in conflicting ways from the first briefing, which is their polite way of admitting the details never lined up. Officials stressed repeatedly that nothing is signed, as if lowering expectations could somehow count as progress. The enriched uranium disposal sounds like a concrete step until you realize it sits in the same category as the Hormuz reopening: a nice idea that remains entirely theoretical.
This is how these announcements usually function. Each government gets to claim movement, headlines get written, and the actual hard choices stay untouched. The principle exists purely on paper, which is exactly where both sides prefer to keep it for now.
