Patrick Sykes

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120 appearances 29 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 3 Sep

Patrick Sykes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 29 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 10.

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We're caught in this kind of back and forth where one day the president will say that, you know, they're on the verge of resuming military strikes or they're on the verge of a deal.
And now the latest is that, you know, they're they're taking some distance and I think trying to take some of the immediacy uh or expectations of immediacy out of the diplomatic dance.
Iran is gonna be, you know, making use of those land borders that it has with countries like Turkey, like Pakistan, with Central Asia, um, and it's also got airlinks, of course, at the same time.
So it's adapting, it's suffering, um, but for now the public persona at least is that it it is able to to withstand that pressure.
The question, of course, is uh what is the timeline on that?
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Iran is basically trying to distinguish between two sets of talks.
It's saying we are indeed speaking with the Omanis about the Strait of Hormuz and what safe passage might look like in future.
But we are not currently negotiating with the U.S.
in the kind of format that we saw to end the war.
We've gone in 24 hours from quite positive music on the diplomatic side to cross-border attacks on a number of fronts.
I think that's not to say that the diplomacy has stopped, but it certainly looks like Iran didn't want to let the U.S.
sort of dictate the terms of this current de-escalation, wanted to show perhaps for internal reasons, perhaps for external ones,
The U.S.
seems to have reached the conclusion that daily strategy of strikes, particularly around Iran's southern coast on the Persian Gulf, hasn't been leading to the results it was hoping for and that diplomacy needs to be the way forward.
What exactly that might look like is also interesting.
fairly unclear at the moment.
We know that, of course, the Pakistanis remain the main mediators in all of this.
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