“Everyone hates you now” - Could Lebanon cost Trump his Iran deal?
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
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Summary
An alleged expletive-filled phone call between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu has laid bare deep tensions over the war in Lebanon. As the conflict escalates, could it derail Trump's hopes of securing a deal with Iran?
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- Dr Lina Khatib, Associate fellow at the Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House.
- George Grylls, Washington Correspondent, The Times.
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| 0:00.0 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Manvine Rano. |
| 0:09.3 | In a week when you'd think we'd be used to excruciatingly embarrassing leaks of private chats between politicians, |
| 0:17.5 | this one still managed to cause a storm. |
| 0:21.7 | Trump told Netanya doing the call, you're effing crazy. |
| 0:26.2 | That's, according to the journalist who broke the news of this extraordinary shouting match |
| 0:31.3 | in what's being described as the worst phone call ever between the American president |
| 0:36.7 | and the Israeli prime minister. |
| 0:39.4 | Donald Trump seemed to snap, telling Benjamin Netanyahu, everyone hates you. |
| 0:45.7 | If it weren't for me, you would have been in prison by now. |
| 0:49.4 | Donald Trump used the phone call to force Netanyahu to back off bombing Beirut |
| 0:55.3 | because the Israeli military push in Lebanon was placing Trump's negotiations with Iran at risk. |
| 1:03.4 | Trump realized that the war in Lebanon, that Netanyahu has been escalating over the last few days, |
| 1:10.9 | would undermine what he is trying to do with Iran, |
| 1:14.1 | would undermine the deal that he's trying to get, |
| 1:16.5 | and he decided to shut it down. |
| 1:20.9 | Will the Israeli invasion of Lebanese territory continue regardless? |
| 1:27.3 | Is Netanyahu trying to scuper the deal with Iran? |
| 1:30.3 | And what could Donald Trump's increasing frustration with it all mean for the global economy? The story today, will Lebanon cost Trump his Iran deal? |
| 2:07.6 | The country has been through worst times in its modern history. However, it is a transformative time for Lebanon because this is the first time in almost half a century |
| 2:15.6 | that Lebanon is seeing a weakening of the influence of Iran in the country. |
| 2:22.0 | That's Lena Khatib, a Middle East expert at the think tank Chatham House. |
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