BREAKING: Iran Braces for Critical U.S. Showdown
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Jay Sekulow
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Trump Administration still plans to meet with Iran tomorrow to discuss a new nuclear deal – despite initially backing out after Iran shifted the terms of the meeting. The Sekulow team discusses White House Envoy Steve Witkoff's meeting in Oman with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, the ACLJ's legal work – and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | We got breaking news. Iran braces for a critical showdown with the United States. |
| 0:05.6 | Keeping you informed and engaged. Now more than ever. This is Sekulo. |
| 0:12.6 | We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments. Recall 1-800-684-3110. |
| 0:38.3 | And now your host, Logan Seculo. Welcome to Seculo. Phone lines are open for you, 1-800-684-31-10. It's a Thursday, Will. It is. Happy Thursday. We got Rick Rinell joining us a little bit later in the U.S. and Iran. You may have tuned in seeing that headline on our YouTube channel. The on-again, off-again relationship between the U.S. and Iran, well, |
| 0:44.4 | it is like a hallmark movie with bigger consequences. |
| 0:48.4 | That's right. Not the hallmark movie that we probably would want to watch around the holidays. |
| 0:53.3 | But what you're seeing now is this |
| 0:55.3 | get together between the Iranians and the United States that was supposed to be occurring on |
| 0:59.9 | Friday. Yesterday, the United States was calling off their plan to be meeting in Istanbul |
| 1:05.3 | with Iran. We need to back it up. For those who maybe weren't listening earlier in the week, |
| 1:09.9 | there was |
| 1:10.9 | conversation between President Trump saying, look, we're going to meet, we're going to actually |
| 1:13.8 | sit down to do this because Iran had started to really kind of push saying, yeah, a regional |
| 1:19.8 | war is bound to happen if we don't really come up with the deal. America kind of called |
| 1:26.0 | their bluff a little bit. And that is with the U.S. |
| 1:28.2 | having an entire carrier group very close to the Iran region where they could launch an attack |
| 1:34.7 | from. Iran, as you mentioned, warned this could spark a regional war. And they were supposed to have |
| 1:40.3 | a sit down, a face-to-face negotiation between the Iranians and the United States in |
| 1:45.4 | Istanbul this Friday tomorrow. Yesterday, the Iranians started to make changes to the plan, |
| 1:52.3 | saying, no, we are no longer going to meet in Turkey. We want to meet in Noman. We no longer |
| 1:57.0 | want it to be about the nuclear issue plus human rights, plus ballistic missiles, |
| 2:02.1 | plus our support of the proxy groups, Hamas, Asbalah, the Houthis in Yemen. We just wanted |
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