Patrick Wintour

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.

It's getting more and more fragile.

I think the more he talks in those terms, the more you realize he really needs to get a solution to this.

And I think he actually spoke to the French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday, which is very much on that theme.

And Macron's just saying we can't leave this as it is.

The ceasefire is going to break down.

And I mean, I should admit error in the sense that last time I saw you, I said I thought there would be a solution within 24, 48 hours.