Paul Rogers

And I think the latest indication is that the Pakistanis who've been trying to play this bring together game,

have actually put a tentative invite out for people to meet again before the expiration of this first two weeks of a pause.

If that actually happens and there's any kind of meeting,

in the next two or three days, and it's pretty well as close as that, or an indication there's going to be a meeting, then we may be sort of slightly out of the woods.

But you do have this complication of what they've gone and done in terms of this sort of counter-blockade blockade.

And if that goes wrong, then we are in difficulties.

Well, both sides have an interest in it.

I mean, certainly the Americans under Trump, they really are in difficulty because basically the Iranians have not sort of capitulated at all as they were expected to do.

So they're in some difficulty.

The Iranians, yes, particularly with the blockade, it's going to be difficult for them pretty quickly, but they can probably survive weeks or possibly even months.

But of course, what we're not talking about here repeatedly is the position of the Israelis under Netanyahu.

As far as Netanyahu is concerned,

He needs this war to continue.

He wants to see Iran as hugely damaged as it can be.

And that does not fit in now with what at least some people in the Trump administration are saying and beginning to think seriously.

It was.

It was from the start.

And I mean, he was warned by many people, including privately, we believe, J.D.

Vance, who from the start has been more cautious.

So this is where we are now.