Israel-Iran conflict: Biden and Trump vie for answers
Power Play
POLITICO
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
How will responses to the confrontation between Israel, its allies and Iran redefine the line that divides Donald Trump and Joe Biden?
Host Anne McElvoy talks to Kim Darroch, the former British ambassador to Washington and former U.K. national security adviser, about the scenarios facing President Biden and what Trump might do if he returns to office. They also discuss the options available to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in responding to Iran's failed attack.
They are joined by Nahal Toosi, POLITICO’s senior foreign affairs correspondent in Washington, who has been reporting on this week's dramatic developments.
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| 0:00.0 | We're following breaking news as we come on tonight the major escalation in the Middle |
| 0:08.1 | East. U.S. officials confirming that Iran has launched drones and missiles toward Israel following through on its vow to |
| 0:15.0 | retaliate for the deadly bombing of its consulate in Syria 12 days ago. |
| 0:20.0 | As Israel's cabinet weighs its options in response to Iran's airborne attacks, allies in Washington, |
| 0:26.1 | London, Paris and beyond are holding their breath, hoping a chorus of calls for restraint |
| 0:32.1 | are heeded in Israel and any retaliation is measured. |
| 0:36.7 | Six months into a bloody conflict in Gaza, the Middle East has reached a perilous moment. |
| 0:41.8 | Can the Biden administration or perhaps a new Trump administration |
| 0:46.0 | act to prevent Iran from wielding nuclear as well as conventional power? |
| 1:06.2 | Welcome to Power Play For power. I'm Anne McElvoy and my guest this week knows how to oil the gears in Washington, London and Brussels. Kim Darick has been at the heart of power for several decades as British Ambassador in Washington during Trump's first two years in office, |
| 1:14.4 | previously as the UK's National Security Advisor and as the UK's representative to the |
| 1:20.6 | EU. We'll also be joined by our own expert in the Hal Tousie |
| 1:24.8 | political senior foreign affairs corresponded in Washington for her expert eye on |
| 1:29.2 | events across the Middle East. The most important call that Netanyahu could probably get right now is |
| 1:35.0 | from Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and if the US for instance can |
| 1:40.0 | convince bin Salman who has his own way of doing things to tell |
| 1:43.8 | Netanyahu dude put a lid on this slow this down take the win then that could |
| 1:49.8 | affect all sorts of things going forward. First Kim, Lord Derek, welcome to Power Play. |
| 1:56.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:58.0 | We'll come on to how Washington is dealing with what is clearly an evolving situation in the Middle East. |
| 2:05.0 | But I want to take us back a decade or so since you were advising David Cameron |
| 2:11.0 | when he was in Downing Street rather than Foreign Secretary for the UK |
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