Jeremy Bowen

He's in a very delicate trade situation already with their trade tariff war between America and China.

Is he going to suddenly put a 25% tariff on China in addition to the other stuff they've been doing?

It's already a very delicate negotiation.

I wonder about that, quite frankly.

Look, the thing about Iran is you cannot ignore it in the Middle East or in the wider world.

Why is that?

It's very big.

It's got the oil.

It's got the gas.

And since 1979, they've had this Islamic regime.

which has an ideology which has put it in conflict with some of its Arab neighbours, with the Israelis, with the Europeans, and particularly with the Americans, who say it's a terrorist state with nuclear ambitions.

But the regime and its supporters, they say that their enemies want to destroy the Islamic Republic, and it seems that there are still millions of people who vote in elections for the hardliners who believe that.

So they include that amongst their enemies, those protesters who went on the street and were chanting those slogans and who were shot in many cases.

Now, look, if you look at regimes that collapse, just sort of die, it doesn't look like one of those regimes, because sometimes regimes fight for years, like Syria's Assad.

And then when they go, they go in days.

He went in days.

Mubarak in Egypt went in days.

In the end, the Soviet Union just kind of was like air coming out of a balloon at the end.

They just flopped.

Iran and the Islamic regime are not at that point.