Emily Maitlis
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4,121 appearances
30 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Jun
Emily Maitlis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Gulf states certainly didn't ask to get involved in the bombing of Iran and and receiving bombs on their own territory themselves.
So why should they now feel that they are obliged to pay for the reconstruction?
But more.
Just imagine what we're saying.
We're saying, could everyone now come in and reinvest in a country that still remains presumably a primary enemy of America?
I mean, a reconstruction fund traditionally is once you have removed a regime.
Yeah.
Right.
Once you've toppled the leaders to rebuild Europe or even Iraq.
You know, you say we've taken out Saddam Hussein now.
Let's try and put the country back together again.
This is our pledge to you for your new life and your new beginning.
There is no new beginning here.
There is no new life.
There's the same regime in place.
So essentially, Trump is now inviting countries around the world to invest in a country that actually they're still kind of politically at war with.
So Trump was a massive critic of any money going to Iran at a time when, frankly, Iran had made their pledge to let in
nuclear experts to kind of see that they weren't enriching uranium in a way that they had promised not to.
Right.
So that was part of the deal that Obama had got.
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