Christiane Amanpour
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5d ago
Christiane Amanpour’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But what is it now?
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Seven months uh at least uh since the end of uh February.
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What do you see in terms of where we all are as to whether this is solidifying
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buying America's authority or not.
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Yes, now it must be said that the phase that Trump and the Americans are in right now is the maintenance and the escalation of their blockade on Iran's ports, which is really having a massive impact on Iran's economy and may or may not end up having an impact on domestic turmoil.
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inside the country and may or may not end up you know threatening the uh the the the regime again as it did economic pain did back in uh you know December, January with those huge, huge protests that were brutally cracked down.
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Now also, Jamie, I've been told 'cause there's a lot of different reporting.
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Uh the latest very interesting uh New York Times report by Farnals Fassi, who's very well plugged in, is suggesting that there is a complete disconnect between the power system there or the constituent parts are not together on this.
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The president, the foreign minister who want to
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keep the negotiation possible and not be overwhelmed by the United States either militar militarily or indeed economically, versus the very hardliners who've consolidated power in the absence of any supreme leader who can actually stamp authority, they're claiming his mantle and are saying, you know, with his authority, we have now entered the escalation phase.
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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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