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War Peace Talks Stalemate

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 12 Apr 2026 · first seen 10 May 2026

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  • Mike Hosking mike-hosking-breakfast Full Show Podcast: 13 April 2026 12 Apr · 106s
    In context, of course, is everything. The news is just reporting that the talks didn't work. 21 hours, they keep banging on about 21 hours. I don't know what people were expecting. I mean, what were they supposed to do? 15 minutes later go, hey, turns out we all agree. I mean, come on. Anyway, so the best reporting I've seen so far calling this marathon negotiating session a failure belies the scale of the challenge. And I think that's a fair point. It wasn't even certain that they were actually... be meeting or sitting down in the same room so hearing reports they are hearing reports the conversations have in fact continued just because J.D. Vance isn't there doesn't make any difference the the real talks are held behind the closed doors of course we still don't know what happened or didn't happen we don't actually have any detail of course they didn't agree in round one they were never going to but Iran has said they're ready to keep talking so they will keep talking and this will and this just once again a little bit of context a little bit of history the history the last time that Iran reached a nuclear deal with the United States this was back in 2015 it took 18 months and this is the whole point you've got to remember about this the war is over no one wants to go back to the war they'll sort the Strait of Hormuz over the next weeks if not months but this deal will be extended and extended and extended and extended so if it took 18 months last time there is no reason to believe it's going to be any quicker this time so before we all we live in a world where we go from zero to a hundred a hundred so quickly you know it's almost like we get excited about cyclones and get fearful in the build-up to cyclone you know what i'm saying it's just like just just keep your powder dry and calm your farm we'll get there eventually jeffrey price will give us some insight when he joins us he's back on the program after seven o'clock to see where the talks go next the prime minister i'm very interested in the swaps What happened to the swaps? We had the tickets. We had the tickets for the petrol we're going to do the deals. What happened to that? Five minutes away from seven.
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mike-hosking-breakfast Government / N-A

failed negotiations highlight strategic deadlock

Full Show Podcast: 13 April 2026
12 Apr
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