Keir Simmons

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164 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Here's the Scoop · The U.S. and Iran Ramp Up Attacks, and Trump’s “Big News” for the Nation · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, and that raises the question, how are they going to get back to the negotiating table?

We're into night after night of U.S.

strikes and of Iran's targeting tankers and targeting, they say, U.S.

infrastructure in Kuwait and Bahrain and sometimes here in Qatar, for example.

All of that we are experiencing, but in the context of a big question, which is how do we get out of this?

Yeah.

I mean, look, I could go down from where I am now and jump on a ship and sail to the Strait of Hormuz.

I mean, I'd be... It wouldn't be a sensible thing to do.

You may not make it out, but no, you may not make it out.

Look, I mean, there's hardly any shipping going through there again now.

And talk about Groundhog Day, we're kind of back to... It just feels familiar, doesn't it?

To...

talking about a sort of economic game of chicken where the Iranians are trying to hold out that their economy will get through this while they try and hold the Trump administration's feet to the fire.

And the Trump administration is trying to put pressure on Iran, on Tehran, without the world economy going into deep, deep crisis.

And this is where I do think that...

There is justified criticism.

I mean, there's many ways in which there's criticism, and you can argue justified criticism about how this is all gone.

But one very important example of it is that this all began with the Trump administration talking about going in to help the people of Iran and tackling Iran's nuclear program.

And now...

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