David Sanger
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478 appearances
12 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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Of course, the agreement itself, we believe, we haven't seen the text of it, only refers to suspending tolls for the next 60 days.
He also told me that he was convinced that Iran would comply and reach the next stage agreement on the nuclear accord and talked about specific provisions.
But we have to remember, he hasn't negotiated any of those positions yet.
with the Iranians.
And he said that if Iran didn't complete that deal, he would either resume military action or begin to have the United States patrol the Gulf in return for 20% of all the revenues, presumably mostly oil revenues, that are received in the region.
Well, that's a very different use of American power in the Middle East.
It's also very Trumpian, right?
So he was trying to make the case that the United States was not only recovering, not only had the blockade worked and the bombing worked, but that he was on the way to remaking the region.
As of the moment when we're speaking, neither party has talked about actually signing this agreement, although we're told that there will be, if there hasn't already been, an electronic signing, think a docusign for an international agreement, and then on Friday in Switzerland, a more formal signing that presumably will include Vice President J.D.
Vance.
And that would probably be the beginning of the negotiations for the next phase.
But what was unusual about the president's call is that as he described and walked me through the nuclear agreements that he believed they were going to reach—
many of which we've already written about in the past few days, he was basically describing agreements that he wanted to make sound as if they had already been reached.
But when pressed, acknowledged that this is all subject to this later and, in my view, much more important document,
which would be much more like what the Obama administration negotiated 11 years ago, specifics about whether or not Iran can enrich uranium, whether it has to give up its stockpile of nuclear fuel and so forth.
Well, one of the things that I thought was surprising about the conversation was that the president went out of his way to praise two authoritarian leaders alike.
who we didn't think had a whole lot to do with this final deal, Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China.
And he praised them for essentially not getting involved.
He was mildly critical of the Europeans for offering to help only after the fighting ended.
And he was deeply critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
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