Patrick Wintour
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621 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
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And I think the big question about the political impact of this funeral and ceremonies is...
whether there's going to be a feeling in the government that they are now more secure, more legitimate, and therefore that they can take a tougher line with America and with Israel, and they'll be more uncompromising in the negotiations.
You can see America giving ground, red lines disappearing in the dust every time Trump spoke.
There was a lot of admissions in there about how he had no option but to pull back.
In terms of what was achieved in this specific war, very, very little indeed.
Yes, it is.
I mean, I think only a man of total historical ignorance, i.e.
Donald Trump, would agree to sign a document like this in Versailles, because Versailles is a sort of byword for national humiliation for the Germans after the First World War.
And I'm sure that...
It was also a moment of triumph for the French, and I'm sure that the French President Emmanuel Macron will have fully understood the significance of the signature at Versailles.
Yes.
It has a sense of humour about it all.
But I don't actually think the whole document does represent in any way the kind of surrender that obviously happened with the Germans in 1918.
But it was just amusing that it was there.
Yeah, I think that's right.
I mean, there are aspects to which I think one has to reserve judgment because so much has been deferred and one doesn't know how the ultimate outcome of the talks, particularly the nuclear talks, which are the main point of deferral, how those will end up.
But it's absolutely true that in order to get the Strait of Hormuz reopened, which obviously was open before the war, he's paying quite a high price.
There is a
a requirement now that sanctions are lifted on all of Iran's oil exports, and it may be necessary for that to work, that banking and transport and other sanctions waivers have to be implemented as well.
In addition, there is this $350 billion fund.
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