Patrick Wintour
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621 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
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And that, I think, the political pressure on him is partly what's led to delay in an agreement.
And what he's trying to do really hard is to get some kind of commitment from Iran that it will negotiate on this stockpile of
highly enriched uranium.
And what the Iranians are saying is we won't give you any commitment about that.
One way or another, we will be happy to negotiate about it, but we're not going to tell you what we're going to do about it at this stage.
That's for the negotiations that should last
60 days, which takes you past the World Cup and into the summer.
So actually the World Cup is an issue for Donald Trump.
He doesn't really want to have a war on whilst he's having this celebration of sport.
They have qualified, but they're now having to train instead of in America where they're due to play.
They're going to have to train in Mexico because there's issues about visas.
So there's all kinds of problems about the Iranian World Cup that's going to be docking us for the weeks ahead.
But anyway, I think Trump, the long short is Trump is in a great political difficulty over this deal.
And that's because he hasn't won the war.
He thought the regime would topple within three to four days.
It didn't happen.
It's proved to be more resilient and more brutal potentially, but it's managed to survive and survival was its goal.
Well, you know, it's not my area of expertise, but what I've read, and I'm not a shipping person, is that it's going to take more than a month because just the backlog of ships that will have to get through, be cleared, and it's still not absolutely nailed down whether this is just going to be free navigation or whether there is going to be some kind of controls by the Iranians and the Omanis.
it's going to take a while.
So I think the impact in terms of inflation is going to be real.
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