Gary O'Donoghue

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1,144 appearances 20 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 7 Sep

Gary O'Donoghue’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

We've seen that one tanker has just been seized, according to the Pentagon, somewhere off Sri Lanka that was connected to Iranian oil.

So this enforcement of the blockade is a real problem for Iran.

And it's not just an enforcement of the ports around the strait and indeed their oil terminals, Karg Island and all these sorts of things.

It's an enforcement worldwide that the Americans have promised to take on.

And hence why you see this tanker in the Indian Ocean being taken.

Newscast · Mandelson Failed Security Vetting: Who Knew What, When? · 16 Apr 2026 podcast

Well, actually, I think this has been a real problem.

So this is a serious development for him because he,

It was a central part of what Iran wanted out of the negotiations.

There was a disagreement, misunderstanding, whatever you want to call it, about whether it was part of the Iran ceasefire.

And so to get this, I think, has removed one of those big stumbling blocks to any kind of future negotiations in the next few days between the US and Iran.

So I think it's incredibly important.

I will say, of course, that, you know,

Israel isn't fighting Lebanon per se, it's fighting Hezbollah.

And Israel has just said in the last few minutes that it plans to stay inside South Lebanon.

It's like 10K inside, isn't it?

So, you know, that's not going to change.

So we'll see what the reality of that ceasefire is on the ground.

But he's also invited the Lebanese president and Netanyahu to the White House, which would be pretty historic, I think.

I mean, the Pakistanis have also been working incredibly hard on getting another round of these negotiations.

Not just the army chief in, you know, touring, going to Tehran, but like the prime minister's going through a whole bunch of countries in the Middle East at the moment.

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