Christiane Amanpour
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first heard Jun 2026
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because we don't believe that negotiations can get us what we want.
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On the other hand, I've spoken to a very well connected former government official myself who says that's not entirely the whole case.
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The actually
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If that was the case, then it would have only been one time when these uh Iranians, you remember, surprised the United States, basically broke the uh ceasefire by by firing on those three uh warships or tankers or whatever they were, and that escalated and started the war again.
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Uh no, but that's continuing that kind of move, and that actually the whole consensus is around the objective right now, and that the issues are very clear.
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And very difficult to sort out.
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Iran wants uh absolute control of the Straits of Homorz, and America doesn't want to give Iran absolute control.
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Control of the Strait of Hormore.
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I don't know, Jamie, before we go into making America stronger or weaker.
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I know these two are not particularly friendly nations, as we know, but they do need to actually sit down and discuss.
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I mean the idea that the Pakistani military chief is the negotiator has not produced a huge amount of uh of of good results right now.
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Mm.
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And as I say and I I'm you know, you gotta keep saying it, the Iranian government is also facing a a close to untenable economic meltdown.
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Now, regarding Trump and the White House and the advisors, let's just take uh one of the latest pieces of news that came out.
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It turns out that people in his own administration, whether it's intelligence, whether it's other Secretary of State Vice President, have warned him, Trump, that this could actually go on to the end of his term.
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Such are the issues and such is the entrenchment of the Iranians to actually win.
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win what they want, which is not necessarily money, I'm told, but it is control of the Strait of Homoors and the ability to I don't know what you know, what control apart from money, but nonetheless, uh that is what I'm what I'm told.
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And it's not the first time, Jamie, that uh the Iranians have
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