00:00that line from the iranian foreign minister just a few minutes ago is really important right that's
00:04why we've seen oil and gas as well uh dropping on that news he's saying that all commercial vessels
00:10are now able to pass through homers it is completely open so that is clearly a relaxation
00:16of the iranian side of the effective blockade of homers what we don't yet know is what that means
00:23for the u.s side right remember we've kind of got opposing blockades going on at the moment facing
00:28off against each other and then i think the other key nuance in the minister's statement
00:32was that it that the strait is open to traffic along the coordinated route that means the route
00:39that iran has set not the route that was the usual route before the war so iran relaxing those
00:45restrictions but still retaining some control over how traffic actually happens interesting patrick
00:52that's good new news there patrick is there a sense in your part of the world that maybe some
00:57momentum momentum is building here uh towards some type of a peace negotiation here because we do
01:03have the negotiators uh announced this morning that they're heading back to islamabad uh is there
01:07a sense that momentum's building for something in the near term i think definitely yeah we're seeing
01:13right we've had the pakistanan mediators have been going back and forth between uh tehran and
01:18washington over the past couple of days and then vitally we overnight we had that uh ceasefire in
01:24lebanon remember that iran in its talks with the u.s had made the situation in lebanon the ceasefire
01:30there the implementation of it a precondition of its own ability to even join those talks so now
01:37if that is hopefully resolved and we've also got some progress on the strait then i think we can have
01:42much more substantive talks potentially as early as the weekend with all this news flow patrick i'm
01:47embarrassed to say i've got time for one more question and patrick this is a really really delicate
01:52question i don't want to mention any names the heritage of this war is iranian leaders disappearing
02:00and it can be israelis disappearing americans disappearing i'm not going to choose sides
02:06here are we beyond the and i'm using this word folks very carefully and with respect
02:13patrick sykes do you sense we're beyond the vendetta to get iranian leaders
02:20i think for the u.s uh i would say yes right we hear trump talking about how a new
02:26regime
02:26is in place regardless of how true that may be uh but for the israelis i don't think that's
02:33necessarily the case right we saw already in the ceasefire that we mentioned they didn't feel
02:38bound by that at the start our impression from reporting is that they don't mind if this war
02:44continues while the u.s has its own incentives to to draw a line under it so i wouldn't be
02:49surprised
02:49if we see a bifurcation of those two allies and israel continues with those kind of operations that
02:56uh into its mind have been so successful
02:59you
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