Jeremy Bowen
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other members of his family, the previous guy was very cautious.
And while I think they wanted the ability to be what they call a threshold state, that they could go for it, he didn't want to go for it.
He issued a religious ruling, a fatwa against it.
But the new guys who were in charge...
are believed to be a lot less cautious.
And so they may be saying, well, look, no one messes with North Korea, do they?
No one messes with North Korea.
Why?
They've got nuclear weapons.
Well, the Americans are steering about it because...
They want the free flow of trade through that, not least the 20% of the world's oil and gas.
Now, they don't actually โ they're a net exporter of oil and gas.
However, it's a world market, so they're seeing prices going up in their country.
The prices of petrol are going up a lot for Americans.
You know, in Europe, we're used to paying a lot more because it's more heavily taxed.
But in America, you know, they love their cars.
They expect to fill them up for not too much money.
Plus, of course, Donald Trump has been actively discouraging the adoption of electric vehicles.
So they would like to get back to the situation of the 28th of February, which is when Israel and America attacked Iran.
But I mean, I'm slightly speechless with the irony of it in that,