Patrick Wintour
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first heard Apr 2026
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I remember seeing the men who runs the International Energy Authority, which is the sort of governing body around this area, said we will be in the red zone if this is not sorted by July.
And I think it will be, but it's going to take at least a month to get this backlog of ships through the strait.
Well, yes, and you've got to remember that the Iranian regime we now have is probably more hardline than the one that existed before the war because the Islamic Revenue got
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are at the heart of this new government and they're calling the shots as they would during the war.
I mean, it's potential.
uh there's a potential that the politics of iran will change quite radically when the war ends but i think that's unlikely i mean in a way there's been a sort of um security blanket been placed over iran there's no you know access to the internet and very few people know exactly how iranians are struggling through with this incredible levels of inflation particularly food inflation
and how they will react when the war ends, whether they will all see it as the kind of victory the IRGC will celebrate or whether they will revert to the kind of protests that we saw in January.
But I think many Iranians have learned a very harsh, brutal and bloody lesson from the uprising in January when more than
3,000 and maybe tens of thousands were killed.
Going onto the streets in Tehran to protest is a hugely dangerous decision to take.
Today in Focus · Trump extends Iran ceasefire: can a deal be made? – The Latest · 22 Apr 2026
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It is significant they're now starting to seize ships because they need to ram home to the Americans that they feel they're winning this war or at least they're not losing this war.
We're in a very difficult position where neither side wants to back down, but neither side really wants to go for all-out war.
There is a real conflict going on in the Strait, and how that plays out is going to be critical to whether the talks recommend it.
Well, I mean, such as the confusion is that people couldn't actually agree at the point at which the ceasefire was supposed to expire.
People had different timelines for it.
I think it's a multiplicity of reasons why he's decided to do this.
And it's not the first time he's delayed some kind of deadline or other.
But I think it's a mixture of he actually doesn't really want to return to a full-scale conflict.
I mean, he was talking about bombing every bridge, every power station, and it was all back to the Stone Ages, part seven.
And actually, the reality is that I think he's realised that the price of full-scale aerial action
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