US Vice President suggests talks with Iran could resume
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Hello, I'm Ankur Desai and in the early hours of Tuesday the 14th of April, these are our main stories. The US Vice President Jody Vance suggests talks with Iran could resume, but the ball is in Tehran's court. He was speaking after the US Navy began enforcing a blockade of Iranian ports. A BBC investigation uncovers evidence of life-threatening malpractice on the paediatric ward of a Pakistani hospital previously linked to a HIV outbreak. Also in this podcast, Colombia is to begin a cull of its invasive hippopotamus population to protect local ecosystems and native species such as manatees and river turtles. This is a necessary action to reduce the population. Without that action, it's impossible to control the population.
As the US and Iran continue to tussle over the key waterway that is vital to the global economy, the US Vice President has given an indication that fresh talks could be revived, but says the ball is in Iran's court. This comes after J.D. Vance accused the Iranian government of carrying out what he called economic terrorism by largely closing the Strait of Hormuz to ships. On Monday, the US began a rival blockade, stopping ships from using Iranian ports. And it comes after talks between the US and Iran crumbled over the weekend in Islamabad. Mr. Vance has been speaking to Fox News, but insists certain conditions must be met.
We must have the enriched material out of Iran. We must have their conclusive commitment to not develop a nuclear weapon. And I think that if the Iranians are willing to meet us there, then this can be a very, very good deal for both countries.
I heard more from our North America correspondent, Peter Bowes, who's in LA. He said the ball was very much in Iran's court. He also addressed some issues that we didn't hear about when the talks broke up in the early hours of Sunday over the weekend, namely the status of the Strait of Hormuz. In fact, Mr Vance went as far as to accuse Tehran of moving the goalposts during the meeting, saying that he'd expected the Iranians to fully reopen the strait in return for a ceasefire. He said by blocking traffic, Iran was engaging in an act of economic terrorism. And were that to continue, he said, the U.S. would abide by the same principle that no Iranian ships will get out either. He said two could play at that game.
And as we know, and as you've been reporting, the U.S. blockade of Iran's ports is now in effect. Donald Trump has said more ships are getting through. But this issue remains the most sensitive, at least I think for the next coming days. Because as long as global trade is being hampered in the way that it has been in recent weeks, it seems highly unlikely that any of the other big issues are going to be resolved. Peter also seemed to allude that they talked over a number of things in Islamabad over the weekend with Iran, seemed to give an indication of what some of those topics would have been. Yes, he did. He elaborated a little bit more on these core issues that are dividing the two countries. He said the US had to put a lot on the table and he said it had done that.
Tehran, he said, wasn't responding in the way that he and the president wanted. On the table, he said, was the ceasefire and the promise that Iran could one day be treated like a normal country. He said... if it was a normal economy people would prosper and thrive but in order for iran to be a normal country he said it could never get a nuclear weapon and he said we must have just to quote him the enriched material out of iran we must have their conclusive commitment not to develop a nuclear weapon that he said would be a very very good deal for both countries and he repeated what
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:22
2
What recent developments suggest talks with Iran could resume?
6:22–11:06
3
What accusations did JD Vance make against the Iranian government?
11:06–12:11
4
How has the US responded to Iran's actions in the Strait of Hormuz?
12:11–19:40
5
What is the significance of the US blockade on Iranian ports?
19:40–21:24
6
What are the implications of the US-Iran discussions for global trade?
21:24–30:11
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