Stephen Mayne

And so their ability to walk away from their sort of state-sponsored terrorism piece, you know, with the cash that's coming for reconstruction, I think that'll be the test because they can still cause an awful lot of trouble whilst not building a nuke.

So can the regime be trusted to, you know, behave itself?

And what will they do with all those funds?

I think that's the interesting question.

Yeah, but how big will the defence budget be?

You know, how much of the $300 billion goes into missiles and drones versus actually just, you know, back to the people sort of stuff.

So I was amazed actually, the Iranians, the 70,000 in the stadium in Los Angeles playing the Kiwis and the majority of them were barracking for the Iranians.

I mean, if you're at war with a country, you wouldn't think you'd go into that country and then have the majority of 70,000 people backing you.

Just goes to show how unpopular the war is, you know.

And then, of course, they got shipped straight back to Tijuana straight after the game.

They weren't allowed to stay in.

And locally, there's so many implications to all this.

Does the Labor government here put the 32 cents a litre excise back on on July the 1st?

So when we next chat, Alan, in a fortnight on July the 1st, oil should have gone up 32 cents that day.

Do you reckon they're going to do it or are they going to blink?

Because once you give something, it's so hard to take it away.

You won't think they'll do any smoothing or graduated approach, you know, like you reckon this is going to go bang, up they go 32 cents on July the 1st.

It'll be interesting to see where the noise sits with Australia in Seattle, whether enough Australians can get in there to –

blanket the place in yellow and drown out the yanks.

I doubt it.