LATEST: Will Trump’s Iran peace deal hold?
6/15/202615 min
Donald Trump has announced that his much trailed peace deal with Iran is to be signed this Friday, bringing an end to hostilities between the two countries and opening up the strait of Hormuz. With the fine print still to be worked out, many questions about the deal remain. Can it bring some stability to the world economy? And will it actually bring peace to the Middle East in the long term?
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Guests:
- Mohamed El-Erian, economist and former International Monetary Fund Deputy Director
- Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, former US ambassador and president of the Middle East Policy Council, now senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Hosts: Jane Garvey and Fi Glover.
Producer: Hannah Quinn.
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[musical tone] [pensive music] Hi, it's Manveen here. Donald Trump held his 80th birthday party at the White House over the weekend, complete with a UFC cage fighting match on the White House lawn. Nothing says 80 quite like it. But perhaps his biggest cause for celebration on Sunday was the much-trailed, but by no means certain, announcement of a peace deal with Iran. The deal itself will be signed on Friday in Geneva, with the fine print to be worked out in the following 60 days. So there's still a lot of uncertainty about the actual detail of the deal. But the Pakistani mediators, who've been key to the negotiations, insist that America and Iran will immediately