All right, Alexander, let's talk about the crisis that appears to be brewing between the United States and Iran.

What are your thoughts here?

We have the situation with the Houthis as well, and the situation with the Houthis has pulled in Iran.

And we are talking again about a possible smash between the

United States and Iran, Trump putting out some very alarming messages and even a letter to Iran.

Of course, you also have the Russians who could play some sort of a mediation role

in order to calm things down. What are your thoughts on what's happening in the Middle East?

I mean, again, this blowout has come very suddenly and very fast, and one isn't quite sure why, in fact,

because Trump went out of his way to get a ceasefire in Gaza just before he became president,

just before he's inauguration. He got Whitkoff to negotiate it.

Everything seemed to be, I wasn't saying it was stable, and I'm not going to try and make out that the situation in Gaza was peaceful because it wasn't, but it was a lot less unstable

and violent than it had been.

But over the last couple of days, things have exploded. So, you know,

there's going to be huge controversy about who started what and who did what. As far as I'm

concerned, it looks as if the ceasefire was crumbling for some time and the Israelis at some point decided to cut off electricity supplies to Gaza.

Then that caused the Houthis to react.

Then that led to the United States being drawn in.

And now because of the Houthis being involved, we have threats against Iran who many

people of the United States assume are somehow controlling the Houthis. And we've had all of

these threats from Trump and apparently a letter from Trump to the Supreme Leader of Iran,

Ayatollah Hamanae. And the reports say that this is a very, very tough, even aggressively worded letter. It says that Iran has two months to agree a deal.

It's not clear from which day those two months are supposed to begin, and that if it doesn't

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