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 · No big deal: murky Iran-war negotiations · 26 May 2026 podcast

What has to happen at its nuclear facilities?

Who's going to monitor and verify its compliance?

What milestones does it have to reach in order to unlock?

various tranches of sanctions, relief, all of those details are going to take time to negotiate.

And so they would be discussed during this extended ceasefire.

The Iranians still think they're the ones with time on their side.

Both sides need this agreement.

America needs it, and the rest of the world needs it because of soaring energy prices.

You had American motorists paying four dollars and fifty cents a gallon for gasoline on average over Memorial Day weekend, and they're not happy about that.

And therefore there's pressure on the Trump administration.

There's also pressure on Iran.

It has managed to find ways so far to stash its oil output in tankers that have been pressed into service.

as floating storage and it's jury-rigged some additional onshore storage, but at some point Iran is going to have to start shutting in its oil wells and it wants to avoid that because that can potentially damage its oil industry.

So both sides have an incentive to make this short term deal that might help to reopen the Strait of Hormuz a bit.

But the Iranians think that Donald Trump needs to deal more urgently.

That the political situation in America and the energy shock that is rippling across the entire world is putting more pressure on him than the prospect of shutting in their wells is putting on the regime in Tehran.

In some ways it would be very similar.

This is one of the problems that Trump is having with this deal.

It's one of the reasons why he seemed to do an about face in his messaging over the weekend.

The deal that's being discussed sounds not dissimilar from the JCPOA, the deal that was negotiated by Barack Obama and then uh abandoned.

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