Buck Brief - Stalemate or Strategy? Inside the High-Stakes Iran Negotiations
The Buck Sexton Show
Premiere Networks
4.7 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Buck Sexton is joined by Alex Berenson, author of Unreported Truths on Substack, to break down the current state of tensions with Iran as a fragile ceasefire holds. They discuss U.S. strategy, the role of oil prices, limits on escalation, and whether a real deal is possible or if both sides are simply buying time.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.6 | You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. |
| 0:08.9 | Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the IHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:14.5 | He's back by popular demand. |
| 0:16.3 | Alex Berenson, host of, or I should say author of Unreported Truths on Substack. |
| 0:22.0 | Well, they host to in a sense. |
| 0:23.9 | Unreported Truth is a substack. |
| 0:25.4 | It's excellent. |
| 0:25.9 | Go check it out. |
| 0:27.3 | And you have been taking some very interesting analysis on a range of issues, including |
| 0:33.1 | Iran. |
| 0:33.9 | And I see some of the downside, at least, similarly to you at this point, although right now, |
| 0:40.5 | I feel like there is a little bit of optimism from the Trump knows exactly what he's doing |
| 0:46.6 | camp based on the price of oil. |
| 0:48.6 | How do you assess? |
| 0:49.7 | By the way, I had Rand Paul on radio and I asked him about this, and all you want to talk about |
| 0:52.6 | is how the war started and how we should. |
| 0:54.5 | And I'm like, buddy, I get it. |
| 0:56.0 | But we're here now. |
| 1:12.0 | Let's talk about now. Where do you think, and he didn't really want to talk about now, by the way. Where do you think we should be? Or how do you think things are going right now as you and I talk? The ceasefire is kind of underway. way. The straight is kind of open. We're kind of negotiating. |
| 1:12.0 | So, I mean, I think fire is kind of underway. The straight is kind of open. We're kind of negotiating. |
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