Jeremy Bowen

what has now become probably the biggest single issue of the war, the central issue of the war, and the way that it's affecting everybody around the world economically, was actually not an issue before the war started.

This is a direct result of those attacks by the Israelis and the Americans.

Well, that's a commendable understatement there.

I would actually say the Americans, unless they can find a way through this, are heading for a strategic defeat, which will be watched very closely by their allies and by their enemies and by their adversaries and rivals, not least China.

And I think it's next week.

Donald Trump is due to go to Beijing to see the Chinese president.

And that was put off because he was meant to be there sort of end of March.

But that was then postponed because of their assumption the war would be over by then.

So he's going to get to a place where he's going to be talking to this, you know, America's greatest global rival, where they are struggling to finish a war that Donald Trump, I mean, Donald Trump,

he likes to state the reality that he would wish was the case rather than the real reality.

Because he keeps saying, well, the war's over, it's over.

He saw the president Lula, the president of Brazil yesterday.

And afterwards, Lula said, well...

Trump is still saying that the war is over, but it's not really.

Victory for me.

Yeah, victory for me.

Well, if they get somewhere on the issue of enrichment...

That's something he might... That's the most likely thing he could then sort of grab onto.

Now, there are lots of good sources, and I've heard from good sources myself directly, that when they were... You see, when the attacks started the war on the 20th of February, the Iranians and the Americans were actually negotiating in Geneva.

And the information that I and others who follow it have been given by...