Gregg Carlstrom

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496 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · Strait and narrowing: the Iran deal crumbles · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

Iran might decide to escalate and start attacking Gulf states, and that puts Trump then in a bit of a bind.

So his military options, there's no guarantee that they're going to succeed.

In fact, they probably won't.

And there's nowhere else he can look for help.

No one is that enthusiastic about contributing to a multilateral.

So again, it's a menu of mostly bad options here for the Americans.

I think first we should remember, as always, that this is Donald Trump.

And so it's entirely possible that one week he calls the Iranians scum and the next week he calls them very wonderful people and he's very happy to negotiate a deal with them.

Nothing is permanent in Trump world.

And I think speaking to people in the region over the past week, there is a sense that yes, the MOU looks dead for now, but it may not be dead forever.

There's a chance that

Both sides will get back to talking and broadly observing the terms of the agreement.

Iran is going to need to make a choice here.

Is it worth pushing the country deeper and deeper into crisis to maintain their control over the Strait of Hormuz, or is it worth trading this for the sorts of economic benefits that the Americans are willing to give them?

Thank you, Jason.

months ago, yeah, on my calendar word.

I think what oh I put on retreat.

And my boss was like, We're going to

The Intelligence from The Economist · Gulf-co-operation counsel: what next for the region · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

The Gulf states aren't total strangers to conflict. matched

They went through the tanker wars in the nineteen eighties, they endured Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait in nineteen ninety. matched

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