Alex Thomson

And equally, Donald Trump can see what this is doing to the US economy and to his poll ratings, which some of his poll ratings recently have been worse.

than joe biden's at the very nadir of joe biden's popularity so that shows you how far he's thinking he's got elections coming up in the autumn now obviously the revolutionary guard and the regime in tehran don't have to bother themselves with details like elections um but equally they want and they need this to go away economically as well as only in any other way

If it's to move on, yes, it does have to happen.

But you've got to stand back in a minute and say, look, we've got a situation here where we've been seeing

a catalogue of failure from both the Israelis and the Americans.

I'll come to the Israelis in a minute, but from the president of the United States, he's tried insults and all kinds of language that you'd never expect to see from a US president or anybody in the diplomatic world.

It failed.

He's tried cajoling and being nice to the Iranians on his social platform.

It failed.

He's tried threatening an out-and-out genocide at one point.

That failed.

He threatened, as I said yesterday, a potential war crime.

That failed.

Wider frame, you've got to stand back and say, this isn't about Iran.

This isn't about the Straits of Hormuz.

This isn't about Iranian search for a nuclear bomb.

This is about, first and foremost, the Palestinian question.

And on that, the Israeli prime minister, with America enjoined, has now got themselves involved in something that looks very like warfare,

in not one, two, three, four, but five different regions.

And you can count six if you want to add the West Bank into that.