Keir Simmons
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first heard Jun 2026
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And Yasmin, you will have guessed it, which is that the two sides that are firing each other weren't here.
So Hezbollah and the Israelis.
Correct.
Exactly.
I mean, on Saturday, we were reporting that the Israeli defense forces were accusing Hezbollah of firing 50 projectiles despite the ceasefire last week.
And then the Israelis fired on Hezbollah in Lebanon, southern Lebanon.
But the Lebanese authorities said that at that point, the double digit number of people had died, including children.
So, yes.
How do you deconflict a conflict?
when the those who are actually directly involved in the conflict aren't deconflicting and i do think that it's worth just saying that both sides talked about progress but both sides emphasize different aspects of the progress so for example the iranians are very much talking about lebanon effectively suggesting that they've got an agreement that israel will stop firing on hezbollah and
That's not the way the Israelis see it, clearly.
And the Americans, particularly, we heard J.D.
Vance this morning emphasizing that there will be nuclear inspections, that the Iranians had agreed to new inspections inside the country.
Can I just give you a politician's answer and say yes or no?
Yes.
I would expect nothing else.
Is it open?
I mean, it's not open the way it was open.
And I suppose that really points to a part of this, which is that some of the things that the Americans have emerged, Virginia Vance emerged and sort of celebrated as successes, are successes solving problems that came about because of the war.
Another aspect of this, though, I do think that's worth just kind of touching on,
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