Julian Borger

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489 appearances 8 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2021 last heard 25 Aug

Julian Borger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Today in Focus · US troops killed: has Trump lost control of Iran war? – The Latest · 21 Jul 2026 podcast
The question of who has control was very much left in the air.
And so it was full of ambiguities.
And so its collapse was really...
inevitable because both sides came away thinking different things about it with their own interpretations.
So what we understand is that the center of talks right now, the behind-the-scenes negotiations, involve Iran and Oman, who are on both sides of the strait, to come to an agreement on how –
the flow of ships can be jointly regulated.
And if that can be done, then potentially there is the prospect of going back to the negotiating table and redoing that memorandum of understanding in a way that works this time.
Thanks.
Thanks for having me.
Today in Focus · US and Iran exchange strikes: is Trump’s peace deal over? - The Latest · 9 Jul 2026 podcast
It's clear that Trump is trying to sort of escalate out of this.
We just hit him very hard.
And I say we hit him 20 to 1.
Every time they hit us, we're going to hit him 20.
Two railway bridges have been hit between Tehran and Mashhad.
Both sides, I think, would want to find a way of climbing down.
Well, on Monday night, Tuesday morning, Iran appears to have struck three ships were going through the Strait of Hormuz.
And what seems to have happened is these ships, which included an oil tanker and an LNG gas tanker, were going along a route that hadn't been approved by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the IRGC.
And that seems to be, at the crux of it, control of the strait.
Well, I think it's fair to say that shooting at ships goes against the spirit of the memorandum of understanding.
I think the language in the memorandum was that Iran would make arrangement for its best efforts to ensure safe passage.
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