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Simon Marks: Global affairs reporter on a peace deal between Iran and the US · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: To Iran and the United States and Israel. Are we
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  Speaker 1: close to a peace deal or not? The President of
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  Speaker 1: America says a US Iran agreement could be signed today,
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  Speaker 1: and mediators have also said a deal is within reach,
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  Speaker 1: but Tehran's warning that there are fresh Israeli strikes on
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  Speaker 1: Lebanon and that could derail the whole thing. Trump says
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  Speaker 1: the attack on bay Routes shouldn't have happened. He said,
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  Speaker 1: don't blow it. Piece is so close. So we're joined
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  Speaker 1: now by Simon Marx, and Simon is the president and
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  Speaker 1: chief correspondent of Feature Story News. Morning to you, Simon,
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  Speaker 1: Hello Simon.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: So, I think this is the fortieth time that the
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States has promised a bit of peace.
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  Speaker 1: How close to me this time?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, there's no question that we're closer than
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  Speaker 2: ever before. I mean, we know that an enormous amount
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  Speaker 2: of work has been done by Pakistani and Cuttery mediators
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  Speaker 2: crafting a document that the United States and Iran have
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  Speaker 2: been edging towards signing, But there is no indication that
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  Speaker 2: the signing is going to take place now in the
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  Speaker 2: next few hours. There is absolute fury at the White
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  Speaker 2: House over the decision by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettanyah
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  Speaker 2: who to strike militarily at be Route over the course
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  Speaker 2: of the last few hours. It is the last thing
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  Speaker 2: that the President of the United States and his top
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  Speaker 2: security officials wanted to see. The Iranians have immediately responded
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  Speaker 2: saying there is no point in continuing talks with the
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  Speaker 2: United States because they evidently do not have control over
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  Speaker 2: Prime Minister Netanyahu and over the military decisions that he
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  Speaker 2: is making. And there was doubt already about whether this signing,
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  Speaker 2: and it looked like it was going to be some
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  Speaker 2: kind of electronic signing of this memorandum of understanding was
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  Speaker 2: going to take place today. Now I suspect that the
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  Speaker 2: Iranians are going to kick the can further down the road.
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  Speaker 1: What's nniahu playing? It is piece the last thing he wants.
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  Speaker 2: Yeahly, I mean, there is a complete divergence between what
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  Speaker 2: President Donald Trump wants and what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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  Speaker 2: netanya who wants. The American President wants an off ramp.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to be able to say to the country,
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  Speaker 2: even if it's not true that I've signed an agreement
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  Speaker 2: that is better than the twenty fifteen JCPOA, the old
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  Speaker 2: Iran nuclear deal from which he pulled the United States,
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  Speaker 2: and he wants that urgently, not least because his fellow
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  Speaker 2: Republicans who are seeking election in the midterm elections or
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  Speaker 2: re election in many cases, are terrified about the fact
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  Speaker 2: that this war continues and continues to take a real
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  Speaker 2: economic toll on the pocketbooks of voters. The Israeli Prime
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  Speaker 2: Minister doesn't want this thing to end. He was in
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  Speaker 2: it to topple the Iranian regime. He doesn't buy President
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  Speaker 2: Trump's argument that regime change has occurred in Iran certainly
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  Speaker 2: not the kind of regime that Benjamin Ettanya who wanted
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  Speaker 2: to see. And at every turn over the last few weeks,
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  Speaker 2: the Israeli leader has tried to pull the rug out
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  Speaker 2: from beneath the American president. And that's what we saw
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  Speaker 2: again over the last few hours.
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  Speaker 1: Soar Max out of Washington, the prisons and chief correspondent
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  Speaker 1: of Fature Story News.
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