Christian Smith

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662 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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Talking Geopolitics · How the "Islamic NATO" Shifts Global Geopolitics · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Or is it is it just a development

Development are a a a next step in and probably what they already knew that these countries, particularly Saudi and Turkey, are are not exactly their best friends.

Well, just to continue the sort of playing this out as you say, Cameron, um i for now and and and for the foreseeable, Iran is in a fairly weak position, putting to one side the questions of the straight off our moves and the current conflict there with the US.

But more broadly, its position is is significantly weakened now.

But it it strikes me as not in the current regime's nature to decide.

decide, okay, well let's just be a normal country and not try and have these influences around the region and and do the things it has been doing over the previous decades.

Um at some point it it may return to some form of of not being at war with the US, I suppose, to put it that way.

Um from the perspective of Saudi and s and Turkey then.

Uh, how do you stop Iran returning to the sort of having the sort of influence it's had in the past?

Is this about containment in many ways?

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And Antonio, you write as well in the in in this edition about uh about sanctions and particularly about why why we're we're very much used to sanctions now, particularly since the start of the war on Ukraine and sanctions on Iran over the years now.

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