Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The worlds most pressing and potentially dangerous strategic confrontation is playing out in the narrow waterway between iran and arabia. The United States is leading efforts to isolate the government in tehran. Iran is responding with defiance, despite severe economic disruption. My guest, former British Foreign secretary jack straw, is a veteran of western diplomatic engagement with iran. How high is the risk of calamitous conflict . Jack straw, welcome to hardtalk. Welcome. Your diplomatic engagement with iran spans two decades, and through that period youve been an advocate for dialogue, for engagement, with tehran. But here we are today, with relations are between the us and the uk and tehran toxic. So is it a story of complete failure . Its not a story of complete failure at all, and indeed, the Nuclear Negotiations which the French Foreign ministers and i got going in the summer of 2003, by fits and starts, laid the foundations for discuss
As is the parliament, subordinate to the Supreme Leader and the so called guardian council, in his own right and reports only you are up to date with the a preacher. So i dont accept that. Headlines. Im far from dewey eyed about it. Now on bbc news its hardtalk. To the hardline nearly octogenarian welcome to hardtalk, Supreme Leader khamenai. Im stephen sackur. 0ne specific point about britain. The worlds most pressing do you think britain needs and potentially dangerous strategic to consider releasing that oil confrontation is playing out my concern is the tanker detained in gibraltar, to defuse tensions, and then hope in the narrow waterway i think the way President Trump in a response measure is going about it will the iranians might release have the opposite effect the british flagged ship . Between iran and arabia. Of what he is proposing. The United States is leading efforts to isolate the government in tehran. Iran is responding with defiance, i wouldnt do it unilaterally. I wou
It is 2 30am. You are up to date on the headlines. Now on bbc news hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The worlds was pressing in potentially dangerous strategic confrontation is playing out in the narrow waterway between iran and arabia. The United States is leading effo rts arabia. The United States is leading efforts to isolate the government into a efforts to isolate the government intoa run, efforts to isolate the government into a run, iran is responding with defiance despite severe economic disruption in tehran, my guest, former British Foreign secretary, jack straw, is a veteran of engagement with iran. Hi hi how high is the risk of committee must the maximus conflict . Climactic conflict . Jack straw, welcome to hardtalk. Welcome. Your diplomatic engagement with iran spans two decades and through that period, youve been an advocate for dialogue, for engagement, with tehran. But here we are today, with relations between the us in the uk and tehran toxic. So is ita
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