Patrick Wintour
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first heard Apr 2026
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And that the sole focus is trying to get the Strait of Hormuz reopened, which had obviously been previously opened before the war started.
So everyone's saying, well, what was the point of all that?
Yeah, I think they do feel emboldened.
I mean, if anything, the regime has changed, but it's changed into a much more security orientated, less clerical, less centrist regime than before.
And I think they feel that they've managed to ride out a storm that the big deterrent that's always been hanging over them, which is an attack by America, has happened and they've survived it.
So it's a kind of transformatory moment for Iran.
in terms of the leadership.
But Trump, I think, is going to have a real job trying to sell what he's managed to negotiate so far, because there are going to be awful connotations of the Barack Obama deal, whereby loads of money was given to the Iranians, and Trump was incredibly critical of that.
And I don't think he's made any progress on the nuclear issues, which
was the Casus Belli.
If you remember, we were told that it was a very imminent threat of a nuclear strike by Iran.
And even though no intelligence assessments coming out of America was endorsing that.
And there were words, you know, to the effect that this will be, in fact, not to the effect, to exact words, was that there will be an unconditional surrender by Iran.
This is not an unconditional surrender.
Yeah, I think if broadly, I think there's four sort of sticking points that were being negotiated over the last few days.
One was the one about the frozen assets, which we've already discussed.
And then you're right, the issue of whether there was going to be a full ceasefire in Lebanon.
The Iranian phrase, it has to be a ceasefire on all fronts.
And Israel's really kicking up very hard there.
about that issue.
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