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 I think the military option for them is going to be difficult.
So when the Houthis tried to shut the Bab al-Mandab Strait last time, the Americans did carry out airstrikes.
And I think those did have a significant impact.
So we don't quite know what the military capabilities are.
think they probably will be trying to work out some way to persuade them not to do this.
But the problem we've got in this conflict is that the wider diplomacy doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
At the moment, we have the Americans talking about talks and saying the Iranians are desperate for a deal.
But there's no real evidence of that.
Tehran is not making any sounds like they want to compromise.
And from their point of view, from the Iranian point of view, the longer this goes on, the stronger their hand gets.
We have a situation where the Americans and the Israelis obviously started off with an overwhelming military power.
But every day that goes by, their list of targets decreases.
The impact they can have with each strike decreases.
For the Iranians, every day that goes by, the impact they're having on the global economy increases exponentially or certainly very significantly.
So from the Iranian point of view...
They basically, the longer they sit this out, the more it looks like the kind of strategic balance is in their favour.
And that's why I think we're not going to be seeing them rushing to the negotiating table any time soon, whatever the Americans are saying.
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