Ian Bremmer
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4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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And that uncomfortable,
unsettled, unstable middle ground is where we have now been occupied in the Middle East for the last several weeks.
So Trump said that the Iranians wanted to talk after all these strikes from the U.S.
The Iranians said, not true.
Actually, the U.S.
reached out to us and they want to talk.
This is one where it's actually kind of impossible, absent direct evidence, to know who to believe.
President Trump or the Islamic Republic of Iran.
And that's kind of a crazy thing to say, but the wildness of the exaggeration from both sides over the course of this war means that really you need to verify before you're just going on the face value of what the statements are.
What we do know
is that we have had now some back and forth conversations and a few days of the Americans holding fire, even after Trump said that these guys don't, it's useless to negotiate with them.
There's no point.
You can't trust them, all of this.
So showing a desire on the part of the U.S.
to see if there is an off ramp.
I don't believe that the Iranians have changed their negotiating position one iota since the memorandum.
They want control.
Now, privately, what Trump has been discussing with his advisors have been three different options.
One is that the United States basically walks away and that the Gulf states have to negotiate an outcome themselves.
And this is kind of when he says, maybe we do it without a deal, that's what he means.
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