Gary O'Donoghue

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Global News Podcast · Trump says US in 'very strong position' for Iran talks · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

And so they will have very few hours, if they do actually get there together, to hammer something out.

And I would caution against expecting, as you do in most of these kinds of negotiations in normal times, that the detail is all sorted out and they go there to sign things.

I don't think they're anywhere near one another at the moment in terms of agreements.

We know there's an absolute sticking point on Iran's

wish to have control over the straits.

It's been exercising that control despite the American blockade and their wish to continue to enrich uranium.

They say for peaceful purposes and the Americans say they want to get a bomb.

So there are some hugely substantive issues here.

This is not dotting of I's and crossing of T's and how that is going to get achieved in a few short hours in Islamabad seems to be an extraordinary lift.

Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely clear that Iran is prepared to take a lot of pain, has taken a lot of pain, is prepared to take more.

Now, that's a sign, perhaps, of an autocratic regime that doesn't care very much about the pain that its civilian population suffers in times like this.

that its prime motivation perhaps is survival.

And it has survived, despite what the president says.

It is still the Islamic Republic.

And it still has at the head of it the son of the man that the Americans killed on day one, or the Israelis killed on day one.

So this is something that is frustrating, I think, to the president.

He simply doesn't

understand how they don't just give in to this overwhelming military force.

And the truth is that, you know, in Iran there's a belief that this is a civilization that's been around for 3,000 years and that a few weeks of bombing from even the world's most powerful country doesn't necessarily change all that.

Having said all that, of course, they do need to get their exports going, their oil exports going again.

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