Sir Richard Dearlove

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The President's Daily Brief · PDB Situation Report | February 28th, 2026: Former MI6 Chief Sounds Alarm On Iran & U.S. Combat Aircraft Move In · 28 Feb 2026 podcast

You asked me about Iranian-driven terrorism.

I mean, I think there is a problem generally in Europe, but it isn't specifically different from what I've described here in the UK.

I think there is the potential as far as the Iranians are concerned on a partial nuclear deal.

I don't think as far as the Iranian view is expressed, there is acceptance of the possibility of a larger deal.

What I mean by that is a complete ban on their nuclear program and additionally,

some sort of deal which limits their ballistic missile capability and then the third element being their support for sheer militias or let's say what's left of what we call the axis of resistance across the Middle East.

Do you know as well as I do that?

The Iranians are very, very tricky and difficult negotiators.

And even when they negotiate, I'm not sure that they stick by the agreements.

I was a huge opponent of the JCPOA, the original deal over Iran nuclear.

And the reason being, I think it gave the Iranians what I would describe as a laissez-passer to misbehave across the Middle East

after they had signed the JCPOA, and we will all see what the consequences of that are now.

So I'm extremely skeptical that the Iranians are going to accept any sort of negotiated deal with Witkoff.

You cannot have a good faith negotiation with Iran.

And the reason for that is they always have a duality of policy.

They will agree one thing and they will, as it were, create a framework that tries to persuade you that they've agreed something.

But at the same time, there is another dimension to policy.

And you've only got to look at the intransigent character of the supreme leader

The fact is that the identity of the Iranian regime is defined not by anything internal in Iran.

It's defined by commitment to destruction of the state of Israel.

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