Patrick Wintour
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Today in Focus · Trump extends Iran ceasefire: can a deal be made? – The Latest · 22 Apr 2026
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deal going on which Trump's supposed to be engineering and they find it very very difficult because they get conflicting messages from the White House about the kind of agreement they're supposed to be striking.
It's not just an Iranian problem but particularly over the weekend there was a selection of tweets which were very triumphalist by Trump and I think it's now become a self-standing problem the way in which Trump is using the media and trying to suggest that he's already won this
when I think it's very deep in the Iranian psyche, and it might be in many countries' psyche, they're not going to feel trampled upon or going to negotiate when they're under threat.
And there's a school of thought inside Iran that they've now proved themselves, they've gone up the league table of great powers, and they've proved themselves to be capable of standing up to Trump time and again.
Well, I think we're in a difficulty, to be honest.
I mean, I think the key Iranian demand is that the American blockade ends and the key US demand is the Iranian blockade ends.
And that is just to get people to the starting gate, which is to recommence negotiations.
So it's very difficult.
And what's going on at the moment is obviously this back and forth about the various blockades, but there's also...
behind the scenes negotiations happening about what would happen when the two sides met because it would all be choreographed it wouldn't be choreographed to the last minute but there would be a sort of certain assumptions that progress was going to be made on two or three issues and at the moment I don't think those behind the scenes talks going on
mediated by Pakistan are going very well either because I think the Iranians have been quite tough in what they're demanding and the Americans aren't relenting.
So 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.
So we're getting this kind of surrogate battle, which I think is more than limbo.
Some people describe it as limbo.
I don't think it is.
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 think that the difficulties largely arising out of the blockage on the Internet.
And this has now gone on for more than 50 days.
And certainly when you when the stuff I'm reading out of Iran, the demand for the restrictions on the Internet to be lifted is repeated.
And it's actually now coming from quite senior politicians inside Iran.
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