Rory Stewart

I was looking to get rid of this post-Ukraine whatever it is.

And you seem to have a skiing injury.

Raise your hand again.

Not very interesting.

I didn't know that.

Oh, here we go.

I don't think Keir Starmer can say the last bit of that.

I think he can say a lot of the first bit about Iran and what we think about that.

But I think maybe the way to phrase it is that, look, Iran is an issue and a country that has bedeviled presidents and other world leaders for decades now.

And it is probably only if we do have some kind of joint cooperative approach to this that we can make real progress.

I mean, the truth is that the deal that was done

was a very it was a pretty good deal trump hated it because it was done by obama um but you know i i just think that that that is part of the problem we're dealing with somebody who feels that everything has to be about him and rory i've been we're getting hundreds of comments in here but you read out some of the negative ones about the from you know people who i suspect there's quite a lot of bots going on here but here's one

from fam giza australia netanyahu is only interested to stay out of jail what which means he has to continue in the state of the war conflict same for trump the epstein scandal continues distraction help somebody else paul ingram operation nonce distraction um self you know so there's a lot it's all very very mixed but i i think that look i think one of the i was thinking about this when i was thinking about the by-election yesterday and all that sort of all the kind of

The relentless commentary that flows from this.

You get so many people saying so much stuff about anything that happens in the world.

And I think that when something like this happens, it really is important that world leaders kind of do step back a bit and actually, I think, say what they really think.

I'd love to hear, you mentioned Albanese, when you first mentioned Albanese, oh God, no, surely he's not going to come out and say, yeah, we totally support this and blank check.

And I don't think that's what you're saying he's done.

But I'd really like some kind of honest calling out of this by all of the world leaders, really, because we're entering a world at the moment, we are, we took, you know, that friend of mine from the Diplomat talked about impunity.

We are entering a world where, you know, leaders can do what they want,