Joe Inwood
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214 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 17 Aug
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So Iranian assets that are held in Western countries or in Gulf countries in their banks, those being unfrozen and given back to the Iranians.
I haven't seen at this point any mention of that.
It doesn't mean it's not in the deal because the text has not been fully released as we speak, but it hasn't been highlighted by anyone.
Whether the sanctions relief is immediate or whether the sanctions relief is phased in, that was always a point of contention.
The Iranians wanted to be up front.
The Americans said they wanted sanctions relief to be essentially contingent.
tied to what they saw as good behaviour.
So whether the sanctions relief is immediate or phased in, it is definitely going to be the direction of travel that we're going in, that there is going to be a sort of a slight lifting of restriction on the Iranian economy, freeing up of some of the assets they have overseas.
As I say, how immediately it happens, we don't know, but it will be happening.
Yes, I also heard rumors that there would be a makkara offer.
Is there a lot of makkara there?
This is the strongest signal yet that an agreement has been reached.
Over the last 48 hours, first the Americans, then the Iranians, and now the Pakistani mediators have said they expect something to be signed this weekend.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif posted on social media that we are closer to a peace deal than ever before, with finalisation in the next 24 hours.
But what he's talking about is not actually a full peace deal, but a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and most likely begin unfreezing Iranian assets.
So the Houthis are longstanding allies of, backed by the Iranians.
They are a militia group in Yemen.
They're involved in the long-running civil war there.
And they were essentially, some say proxies for, some say allies for, you can choose your terminology, but they are aligned with the Iranians.
Now, some people might say it's surprising they haven't got involved to this point.
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