Julian Borger
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first heard Feb 2021
last heard 25 Aug
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Today in Focus · Is Trump’s deal with Iran embarrassing for the US? – The Latest · 15 Jun 2026
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So this is another vulnerability in the deal because we've heard from the Israelis already, as you said, that they have no intention of going anywhere.
They're going to stay there.
You could imagine there'll be further clashes with Hezbollah there.
And so this is a big weakness that there is a third player here, Israel, that has various motives.
One is security.
The other political from the point of view of Benjamin Netanyahu.
He's come out to elections, has not really much to show for it in terms of security.
So he is very much a wild card now when it comes to this ceasefire, this disagreement holding.
They are going to be very difficult talks in a short timeline because these issues about Iran's right to enrich uranium, what happens to its sizable stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
These have been there for many years.
Of course, they were addressed in the 2015 deal done by Barack Obama that Trump famously walked out of.
And now they've become the center of the issue once again.
Well, he said it was a rubbish deal, didn't he?
Well, this is a real problem in terms of coming to agree on a deal this time because it'll be evident if the deal that Trump comes to is worse than Barack Obama's.
And this would be political, very difficult for Trump.
And so those parameters on the negotiations...
That will be hard.
But it's worth remembering that before this war started, two days before this war started, the two sides were fairly close to a deal by all accounts.
And it is hard to imagine that the deal they come to in Geneva, if they come to one, will be very different from that one that was on the table back in February.
Well, of course, you have an economic cost that is immediate and will last over months, if not years, in terms of inflation, petrol prices, agriculture, inputs to agriculture.
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