Lucy Hough

So where do you think we're likely to go from here?

And just lastly, Patrick, I mean, like you say, it's a limbo, but it's a limbo, particularly for all of us who are, you know, as consumers paying the cost of this war.

But for Iranians, there's an estimated 2 million people who've lost their jobs since the start of the conflict, which is amazing.

You know, an unbelievably large amount of people.

Trump estimates that Iran is, the Iranian regime is losing $500 million a day because of this.

But I just wonder if you can give us as a longtime Iran watcher a kind of sense of, you know, how hard this has become for people living in Iran.

That's it for today.

My huge thanks again to Patrick Wintour, our diplomatic editor.

You can keep up with his reporting and analysis over at theguardian.com.

And I do really recommend his piece.

He talks too much how Trump's erratic commentary is the real block to an Iran deal.

I'd also give a big shout out to yesterday's episode of Science Weekly.

Ian Sample talks to our AI reporter Aisha Down about a new model from AI company Anthropic that they say is so powerful they won't release it to the public.

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This episode was presented by me, Lucy Hoff.

It was produced by Bryony Moore.

The senior producer was Ryan Van Goben and the lead producer was Zoe Hitch.

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