Christian Smith
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662 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Christian Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Already we're seeing alternatives set up to avoid this strait.
And of course, economics, markets, finance sort of drives.
Everything.
Do you think that that will mean that actually the straight level moves is currently seen as a huge advantage for Iran, but because of the desire now to move away from it, this will actually
potentially be something that isn't as important in five years' time.
Very much it's not so so I suppose then the question is do you think that parti particularly in the business and the in the markets in those communities that they perhaps underestimated this this potential threat or is it perhaps that they didn't but didn't think there's much they could do about it?
Which makes you think will they be able to do much about it in the future?
Mm.
Less than less than reassuring then.
Um let's look at the nuclear side of things uh in the negotiation that's gonna have to take place here.
There were reports this week that uh CIA director John Ratcliffe uh was not exactly happy with this and in particular, uh believe that Iran really has no intention of dropping its nuclear capabilities.
What do you make of that, George?
It certainly has no intention of dropping it.
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Well that leads quite nicely onto my next topic, which is whether or not we actually might go back to war, because A, as you say, George, there it could be a high price.
I wonder what that high price for giving up that nuclear material might be.
But if it is too high for the US, whatever it might be, do you think that there is enough appetite on both sides to go back to conflict?
In terms of
this c this point of how likely we are to return to war.
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