James Landale
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231 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jun
James Landale’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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ending the war, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, getting the world economy going again, are not the same interest as Israel or Iran.
Yeah, it's absolutely right.
The fact that there are, you know, this is not something that the United States can just decide in its own gift.
And I think that the Americans are learning that as a hard lesson of what it is to be a sort of a superpower that doesn't have quite the unipolar heft that it used to have in times past.
I think the problem we've got at the moment is that America wants a deal.
Iran actually wants a deal.
America's under political pressure, but the Iranians are under economic pressure to get a deal.
They don't want to be reaching a point where they have to close down their oil fields, because if that happens, it all gets very complicated and messy, and it's not as if you can turn these things on and off again.
So they do want a deal if there's one there.
But they are insistent at the moment on trying to put pressure on the Americans to use their leverage over the Israelis.
And the point is that other than angry telephone calls, the American side at the moment are not putting leverage on the Israelis in a way that they could in theory.
Yeah, well, I mean, Katrina will correct me, but I think, you know, by law, as in a law agreed by Congress, America gives Israel three billion plus worth of military kit per year based on the principle, the argument that America wants Israel to always have the military upper hand over its Arab enemies in the region.
That was the sort of rationale before it.
You know, that's a special relationship.
If you're talking about the one that we don't share with.
And so there is leverage that could be used, but that doesn't happen.
And so that's why, you know, last week we had the Iranians saying, look, guys, you've got to put, you've got to restrain Netanyahu.
And if you do, if you don't, well, we're going to, you know, the state media announced that the Iranians had stopped all negotiations with the Pakistanis mediating with the Americans.
That didn't have any impact.
So now they're slowly but surely ratcheting up the pressure.
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