Andrew England

I trust my contacts.

And so there was progress.

But once Trump makes these threats, how does Iran respond?

Because, again, neither wants to be seen to be caving to the other's pressure.

And the last thing Iran will want to do is being seen to capitulate.

And this is the thing that Trump hasn't understood from the very beginning.

If you remember before the war started, there were nuclear negotiations.

And Steve Witkoff, his envoy, said the president surprised...

that Iran hasn't capitulated to all this military pressure.

And that just shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the enemy, of the party they're dealing with.

I mean, this is, you know, since the Islamic revolution in 79, this ideological foundation is hostility to the US and the West.

After they've been bombed, they were bombed by the Americans and the Israelis in June last year.

The last thing they're going to want to do is be seen to be capitulating to military pressure.

To the regime in Tehran, that's a graver threat to them than war.

No.

I mean, what makes this administration so different?

I mean, you speak to people and you say, it doesn't matter who you speak to around the president.

It's only what the president's thinking that matters.

You know, you don't have an institutional kind of system.

So that makes everything much trickier.