Robert Malley
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322 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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We may even see a breakdown, but the best case scenario, the best realistic case scenario is a series of smaller deals.
Iran says we're prepared to accept inspectors in exchange for more sanctions relief.
We're prepared to turn over these...
450 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, 60% enriched uranium in exchange for more sanctions relief.
So you may get a series of progressively more significant nuclear deals.
And Iran, again, would benefit economically from that.
But the grand bargain, that's something I think that's more in the world of dreams than of reality.
Yeah, so this is one of those promises which are way into the future, but they're more imagination than reality.
Maybe it will happen, maybe not, but it's all tied to this final deal, which, as I said, is pretty unlikely to come to pass.
Now, in theory, I think what the U.S.
had in mind was that Gulf countries would contribute to this fund because they're going to want to invest in Iran, and Iran is this country that has huge resources and a huge potential.
And so it's a promise that the U.S.
can make at no expense to itself because it's not going to, in theory, it's not going to expend any of its own money, maybe some, but I don't think that was the thinking.
But it could promise other people's money on behalf of a deal that those other people had no hand in shaping.
You know, none of them at this point has this idea in mind, the notion that the U.S.
in negotiation with Iran could announce that other people are going to invest.
Again, you know, if you need a caricature of what the Trump presidency is about, there you have it.
I mean, the Khamenei regime, this Iranian Islamic Republic, has survived under tremendous economic pressure.
The notion, and this is a very American, I don't know if it's a Western notion, which is if you strangle the economy hard enough, long enough, then the regime will either collapse or surrender.
I mean, look at Cuba, look at North Korea, look at Iran itself.
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