Does Donald Trump remember who started the war in Iran?
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump launched "Project Freedom" over the bank holiday weekend - a "humanitarian gesture", aimed at guaranteeing the safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz still stubbornly being controlled by Iran.
The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, announced today a "red white and blue dome" over the area as he insisted that the US holds all the cards in the conflict. There's just one problem: nobody seems to be buying it. Ships aren't moving through the Strait in any real volume, and there were fresh attacks from both sides over the weekend despite a ceasefire. Has Trump forgotten who started this war? And have other world leaders stopped listening to him?
Later, has Zac Polanski peaked too soon ahead of the local elections on Thursday? One poll shows his approval ratings plummeting over the last week - why?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK commercial banking, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | This is all happening because Donald Trump realizes he is in a corner now over the straight of Hormuz. |
| 0:19.9 | We have got to a place where Trump believes that he is the savior of this war now, |
| 0:25.0 | not the perpetrator. |
| 0:26.1 | There is now a red, white and blue dome over the Strait of Hormuz |
| 0:30.4 | and it's safe for commercial shipping to pass. |
| 0:34.2 | You can't just come in and sort of, you know, play the white night. |
| 0:38.3 | Does anyone believe him? |
| 0:39.3 | Direct gift from the United States to the world, we have established a powerful red, white, and blue dome over the street. |
| 0:47.3 | American destroyers are on station supported by hundreds of fighter jets, helicopters, drones and surveillance aircraft providing 24-7 |
| 0:56.0 | overwatch for peaceful commercial vessels, except Iran's, of course. |
| 1:02.8 | That is Pete Hegeseth, the Defense Secretary or Secretary of War, just a few moments ago at the |
| 1:08.2 | Pentagon saying, forget iron domes, there is now a red, white and blue |
| 1:13.0 | dome over the Strait of Hormuz, which means it is now safe for commercial shipping to pass. |
| 1:20.2 | They're calling it Project Freedom. America trying to tell the rest of the world, it's safe |
| 1:25.9 | to go through the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 1:28.2 | Does anyone believe them? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:36.1 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:39.0 | It's John. It's Maitless. |
| 1:41.0 | So HEC-Seth today is telling everyone, it's safe. |
| 1:48.3 | There is now all this military hardware in place that anyone who wants to go through the straight of all news can, and he's declaring it a humanitarian mission. |
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