U.S Iran War | "Missiles Speak More Than Dialogue" | Peace Talks Hit Brink of War | N18G | 4K

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Word from the White House on an Iran deal now sounds ominous almost. Trump's dramatic announcement of an agreement of sorts over Iran, melodramatic announcement one might add, not unusually so coming from Trump, has proved to be quite the opposite. Trump announced agreement but confirmed disagreement through the course of that very announcement. And worse, he has offered indication at least that no agreement appears in sight. So the apparent good news, the limited good news from Trump, does not sound good at all that the naval blockade of Iran will now be lifted as he said quite categorically. On its own, that might have sounded like the beginning of an end of the Iran crisis, but that vague promise stood smothered by the threats that Trump held out that Iran must agree that they will never have a nuclear weapon, that the Hormuz Strait must be immediately open.

[00:01:00]These were demands towards agreement, not an agreement in themselves at all.

[00:01:06]It was in fact implicit from the making of these demands that Iran has not accepted them.

[00:01:12]The word from Iran was that they had not even begun to discuss these demands, never mind agree to them.

[00:01:20]There are further demands that Trump made through the course of his announcement that Iran not only has not accepted, but that Iran almost certainly cannot accept at all. That it will in effect assist the US to take away its enriched uranium for it to then destroy.

[00:01:40]Trump said that this enriched uranium, which is an estimated 440 kg enriched to 60%, will be unearthed by the US in close coordination with Iran and with the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, so that Iran and the US really together dig this stuff out for Iranian engineers to package and hand over to the US to take away. Who knows?

[00:02:05]With a happy hand over ceremony. This is fantasy land that Trump set out.

[00:02:12]It's not the stuff of agreement or likely agreement, but it's a fantasy scenario with a threat hanging not far above it that Iran must do as told or else.

[00:02:24]That threat has been underlined with the announcement that Trump is now making a final determination on any deal saying in effect that this could well be Iran's last chance to comply to obey.

[00:02:38]Trump's threat was followed by a meeting held in what is described as a situation room in the White House.

[00:02:45]That meeting was held. Silence followed.

[00:02:48]A worrying silence. Worrying for Iran, for the world, and not least for Trump, too.

[00:02:55]The fact is that Trump is in quite a situation also when he's not in that situation room. He cannot now appear to retreat under a snub or refusal from Iran. On the other hand, the option of another assault brings no guarantee of success at all. The first attack was expected to have delivered the results that had been set out in a couple of days.

[00:03:22]We are now in the fourth month.

[00:03:24]The Iranians sound a great deal more tentative in speaking of their approach towards any agreement. For a start, agreement reached earlier in this week was at first only towards a memorandum of understanding for [snorts] a framework for an agreement. That tentative. To then be worked out over an extended 60-day ceasefire. We are short of a common understanding on a framework here. Never mind agreement on a deal.

[00:03:53]And to the extent that there has been a promise from Trump, no seafarer has begun sailing back to their loved ones to say hello to waiting family from their favorite president.

[00:04:05]On the Iranian demand for release of $12 billion of frozen Iranian assets, a very clear no from Trump. Trump has been firm that no money will be exchanged until further notice. So, no money for Iran, no nuclear dust for Trump. Nothing more moving yet in the Strait of Hormuz.

[00:04:23]What's new?

[00:04:25]What does appear different is that Trump is not inclined, as he says, to wait much longer. He wants this final determination now. With Trump, that of course can change. Anything he says can, but unless that final determination is that Trump only sits around waiting for the yet longer, >> [snorts] >> this impasse over a deal could well now trigger a renewal of war.

[00:04:51]The language from Iran's chief negotiator, Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, would suggest that Iran is preparing for just this.

[00:05:01]Shortly before Trump's announcement, such as it was, Ghalibaf made his own announcement. And that was quite stark, that Iran seeks concessions not through dialogue but with missiles.

[00:05:15]That he does not trust words. That the winner of an agreement is the one who is better prepared for war from the day after.

[00:05:24]This was far from the language of a peace deal in the making. It was the language of a peace deal going nowhere, nowhere certainly in the direction of peace.

[00:05:36]The White House has claimed more than once that Iranian negotiators speak a different language in the negotiations with the US than they do publicly. For a peace deal to come, that had better be true here. If not, a new confrontation could be imminent.