Vera Bergengruen
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262 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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What did Iran say?
Iran said that the United States was not approaching this in good faith.
They said that the United States was coming in, again, with like a fantasy wish list of the demands of a victor, of somebody who's won a war and is forcing concessions on another country.
And in their view, they still have control of the Strait of Hormuz.
They're still in control.
So, you know, Iran wasn't approaching this as someone who has lost the war and who has to concede.
They didn't see that as somebody really approaching this in a serious and good faith way.
Again, I mean, when the president himself is saying, we've already won, I don't really care what happens in these negotiations.
I think that was a very unusual message to say ahead of a negotiation.
You know, when you think how long it took 10 plus years ago to settle a couple of points on the nuclear program, that took hundreds of people and many years.
And now they were trying to do that and 10 other things at the same time without having done any of the pre-meetings with lower level people getting on the same page, you know.
These negotiations are incredibly complicated.
And this is how the Trump administration in his second term has approached all of these.
We saw this in Gaza, in Ukraine.
They tend to try to invert the whole process.
And they really like what we kind of called, you know, deal now, details later.
They want to just declare, you know, there's been some kind of agreement.
And then all of the details have to be worked out after there's been some kind of agreement.
That's definitely not how the Iranians do these things.
And that's not how most negotiations work.
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