Patrick Wintour
speaker
621 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Patrick Wintour’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 2.
Appearances
And evacuations, I think, of about 20% of the whole population.
And I think there's so much pressure now on the Iranians to say that they won't permit this to go on.
Well, the justification from Israel is that they believe Hezbollah have made the life in northern Israel impossible because of the drone attacks and because of the missile launches.
I mean, Hezbollah is a reduced organization in comparison with what it was.
I mean, some people have compared it more to a kind of guerrilla army than a sort of terrorist army.
But they're still causing a lot of damage and including to death toll of Israeli soldiers there.
But it's always been the Iranian position that if there's to be a ceasefire, it's a ceasefire on all fronts.
And so that means there's a ceasefire in Iran, but there's also a ceasefire in Lebanon.
And it's very difficult from the Iranian perspective just to sit back and watch this happen.
For instance, the speaker who's the chief negotiator, Galibaf, has said there will be a price to pay.
And the foreign minister, Arachi, has also said no.
Ceasefire is required on all fronts and the tone is becoming more threatening.
Well, I think this is the second or third time there's been this kind of minor breach of the ceasefire, which I call it minor because it hasn't stopped the negotiations continuing about what the final outcome would be.
But if they continue, I think it will be the moment they're contained.
And I think they're understood on both sides, as it were.
It's one attack by the Americans, then a reprisal by the Americans.
Iranians into Kuwait, where they say the missiles have come into Iran.
If it continues, the argument that the Americans are making these are acts of self-defense becomes difficult to sustain.
I still think both sides don't want to go back to fully pledged war.
But now you've got these problems both in Lebanon and in Kuwait.
Showing 361–380 of 621 · page 19 of 32
← Previous
Next →