Patrick Wintour
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492 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Patrick Wintour’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was also a moment of triumph for the French, and I'm sure that the French President Emmanuel Macron will have fully understood the significance of the signature at Versailles.
Yes.
It has a sense of humour about it all.
But I don't actually think the whole document does represent in any way the kind of surrender that obviously happened with the Germans in 1918.
But it was just amusing that it was there.
Yeah, I think that's right.
I mean, there are aspects to which I think one has to reserve judgment because so much has been deferred and one doesn't know how the ultimate outcome of the talks, particularly the nuclear talks, which are the main point of deferral, how those will end up.
But it's absolutely true that in order to get the Strait of Hormuz reopened, which obviously was open before the war, he's paying quite a high price.
There is a
a requirement now that sanctions are lifted on all of Iran's oil exports, and it may be necessary for that to work, that banking and transport and other sanctions waivers have to be implemented as well.
In addition, there is this $350 billion fund.
I mean, it's true that Trump says that the Americans won't contribute more than 10 cents to this fund.
This is the reconstruction fund for Iran.
Well, that is one of the mysteries because he says that America won't fund it.
But the document does say that America will create it.
I think it's actually one of the mysteries in the document because I don't see there's a great willingness amongst Gulf states to pour money into Iran at present because they're still recovering from the fact that Iran bombed them throughout the war.
And there's a real element of distrust between the two sides.
So it may sound a good figure and it may sound dramatic, but I'm not sure how.
important it is.
On the Strait, though it is being reopened, it's only being reopened for 60 days on the basis that it will be free navigation.
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