Ione Wells
speaker
364 appearances
21 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Aug
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These include things like providing compensation to Iran, lifting sanctions on Iran, ending not just this war but other conflicts.
Also, allowing Iran to maintain control over the Strait of Hormuz going forward.
Yes, Iran has agreed as well not to pursue a nuclear weapon, but that has always really been Iran's position publicly.
Now, it's not clear if the US and Iran will agree to any of these points at all, meaning we could just be back to square one, back to where we were last night, again, in two weeks' time.
I think the next two weeks, though, are going to be really key to show who gives or takes more in these negotiations, but also if this ceasefire holds, because...
Both rounds of nuclear talks in the past year between the US and Iran, both direct and indirect ones, have been interrupted by military escalation, by strikes on Iran, by the US and Israel.
Yes, that's right.
I think increasingly, as the war went on, there were Republican voices voicing dissent, as well as Democrat criticism, too, largely because of the economic cost of the war, the impact we saw domestically on gas prices, on stocks, the markets reacting, the impact that had on the cost of living at a time that Donald Trump's ratings have been slipping more generally in a year where he does face midterm elections.
I think also there were concerns among some Republicans about his promise not to engage in more foreign wars when he was campaigning to be reelected.
And then, of course, the US engaging in this one.
So I think there has been a political cost.
I think also internationally, while a ceasefire has now been agreed, at least temporarily,
Many of the US's allies won't forget the language that Donald Trump used last night, threatening that a whole civilisation would die if a deal wasn't reached.
That is language that is more extreme than he has used previously in a conflict and I think will trouble a lot of his allies going forward.
There had been speculation for some time that the Trump administration was not particularly happy with her performance at times.
Pam Bondi is out as US Attorney General.
Well, I think the timing certainly seems to have come as a bit of a surprise.
There had been speculation for some time that the Trump administration was not particularly happy with her performance at times, particularly over her department's handling of the Epstein files release, the fact that some victims' names weren't properly redacted, the public fallout.
I think sometimes didn't go down particularly well.
I think also another thing that has caused friction, I suppose, between her and Donald Trump has been that he has tried to take control of the Department of Justice and use it as a vehicle.
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