Gary O'Donoghue
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1,144 appearances
20 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 7 Sep
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But certainly the spin is, of course, it won't happen because other countries in the region won't let it happen.
One other quick thing on the mines.
That is a key point.
There's a load of mines there.
One very senior national security official told me recently that they have a pretty good idea where they all are.
And the other thing they're saying is that the sort of risk, the appetite for risk varies significantly between different countries.
shipping operators.
So some, you know, are prepared to go through this southern channel there, Oman, and take a chance.
Others are much more risk averse.
I want to wait and see until it's cleared.
So there's not kind of just a switch that you flick and everyone suddenly sails out of the Gulf into the
the Sea of Oman, that's not the way it's going to work.
Well, the idea is opaque.
I mean, what the deal says is that the US undertakes, along with its other regional powers,
to to create um this at least 300 billion dollars this is what it says at least 300 billion dollar fund now the spin on this yesterday was we're not we don't have to pay them a cent it's all performance based it'll probably come from sanctions relief and unfreezing of assets there's you know we're not giving them anything so the words kind of don't really match
what the spin was yesterday.
And there's a reason for that, which is because this is the thing that will really get under the skin of Republicans here.
And we've already seen Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican senator, come out and say, you know, if this is it, then this is a huge mistake.
Oh, but we love your deal, President Trump.
So there's potential here.
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