(Reuters) – Iran and the United States concluded a round of indirect talks on with no sign they had made headway toward a lasting peace, focusing instead on issues that they had supposedly resolved two weeks ago.

Sources said negotiators for the two countries spent two days in Doha discussing maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz and financial incentives for Iran, two pillars of the initial agreement ​they signed in June, rather than more difficult topics that framework was supposed to tee up.

In Washington, U.S. President Donald ​Trump said the two sides were making progress on possible limits to Iran’s nuclear program — the main reason he launched the war in February. “The denuclearization of Iran is moving along well,” he told reporters. “They’ve had very good meetings, and we’ll ​see.”