Patrick Wintour
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first heard Apr 2026
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And he also accepted that it would be possible for Iran to dilute this stockpile of highly enriched uranium inside Iran, where previously he'd insisted it had to be exported abroad.
So you can already see the parameters of the nuclear negotiations, which obviously are very open at the moment.
But you can see America giving ground, red lines disappearing in the dust every time Trump spoke.
So
Sure.
We're going to have to think what was achieved in this war.
And I think if you look at what Iran was willing to do before the fighting started.
Well, it's not for nothing in the sense that you've got to remember also that Iran's sort of enrichment plants have been destroyed in the previous war, in the 10-day war last year.
So, you know, that is a big change in the whole climate.
But in terms of what was achieved in this specific war, absolutely very, very little indeed.
And I think it was also telling in this press conference, Trump started talking about if we'd let this war go on, there was no way in which the Strait of Hormuz was going to be opened.
The ship owners weren't prepared to take the risk.
He said we were close to a world recession and he said we were maybe just weeks away from running out of oil.
So
There was a lot of admissions in there about how he had no option but to pull back.
And you then go back to the feeling, well, surely you should have foreseen that the Strait of Hormuz was going to be a problem for America.
And I said this on, I was already struck on a previous occasion that there's this body called the International Energy Authority.
And when they have new recruits, they ask them two questions for job interviews.
And the first is, why do you want to come and work for the IEA?
And the second question is, what would you do if the Strait of Hormuz was closed by Iran?
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