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 · Ceasefire alarm: Iran and Israel trade strikes · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

And I think particularly this strike on a petrochemical plant is significant for two reasons.

One is the impact that it will have on the Iranian energy sector, the Iranian economy.

And then there's also the question of how Iran views that attack and how they will retaliate for it.

They have treated these sorts of attacks in the past as being major escalations.

So will

They follow a similar logic here, either attacking economically significant targets in Israel or perhaps widening the war horizontally and going back to attacks on Gulf states.

Now, I think it's riskier if they attack Gulf states because they risk America getting into the conflict as well, and they risk the ceasefire falling apart entirely.

But there is a fear here in the Gulf this morning that they might once again find them.

themselves on the receiving end of Iranian attacks.

Depends what time of day you reach him on the phone and what mood he's in.

I mean, as usual.

The public messaging that we've heard, both what Trump has said personally and the leaks that are coming out of the administration overnight, make it seem as if he's very unhappy with these Israeli strikes on Iran.

Uh journalist from the FT called him up in the middle of the night.

He answered, he said Netanyahu has to accept whatever.

I impose, I call the shots, he doesn't call the shots.

Remarkable thing for the President of the United States to say about Israel.

Also remarkable that Trump is apparently taking phone calls from journalists in the middle of what you would think is a crisis situation in the White House.

So we heard that from him, and we've heard reports in in Fox News and elsewhere that the president supposedly told the Israelis that he's had enough and this needs to stop.

Now

That's what we're hearing in public.

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