Jeremy Bowen

Arab countries, particularly Gulf countries, was that the Iranians had made offers in terms of restricting enrichment, though without conceding on the right to enrich uranium.

And that's the process which can give you the ingredients to make a nuclear device.

And it will be a real terrible, bitter irony if at the end of this,

Essentially, they came out of it with a similar deal to the one they might have got if they'd be more persistent with negotiations back in February.

And a lot of people who are now dead would be alive and a lot of damage that's been done wouldn't be done.

And the economic consequences are in a hard pressed world where a lot of people are suffering with cost of living issues.

And in some of the countries where we say sub-Saharan Africa, where

food can be in short supply, things like the shortage, not just the oil and gas, but fertilizer, which, you know, the feedstocks for which come out of the Gulf means that people might actually not just be a bit hard up, they might actually be suffering from starvation as a result of this.

Things keep on going.

No, he does not.

Well, he wants a peace deal if it's a surrender deal.

Hmm.

The Israelis, if you read the Israeli media, the government is deeply wary of any kind of deal that gives the Iranians anything.

Sanctions relief, for example, which would allow them to get some cash coming in to trade, to rebuild.

They don't want that.

They would like to continue with being able to bomb Iran more or less when they wanted to.

this policy which they used in Gaza for many years and in Lebanon, which the Israelis call mowing the grass.

In other words, you hammer them and then as soon as they look like they're starting to recover, you hammer them again.

I've never had anything like this.

The courts have never had anything like this, that's for sure.