Has Trump invented his peace deal with Iran?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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It's a funny old world when you have to check with Iran’s state TV before you know if the US president is telling the truth. In a post early this morning - just as the markets opened - Trump declared he’d had productive discussions to end with war with Iran. An hour later Tehran flatly contradicted him. But by then there had already been a market rally putting two trillion dollars back into the system. So what’s going on: Has Trump had enough of war? Has he had stern words from his Gulf allies? Or is he just trying to manipulate the price of oil?
Later, Business and Trade Secretary Peter Kyle on how to do business with America in the age of Trump and whether he’d call his actions "erratic".
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:07.3 | It's like you're on this endless helter-skelter ride where you're kind of, things go up really fast, |
| 0:13.0 | and then they come down really fast as well. |
| 0:15.5 | We are dealing with a guy who is in severe cognitive decline and doesn't really make sense from one moment to another. |
| 0:22.1 | I wonder how many of his mates knew that this announcement was coming. |
| 0:26.0 | Does it make it easier for Iran to find an off-ram? |
| 0:31.0 | I've got to say something about the morality of this |
| 0:33.5 | because it is so grotesque. |
| 0:39.3 | This is a Global Player original podcast. We have had very, very strong |
| 0:43.3 | talks. We'll see where they lead. We have |
| 0:46.3 | major points of agreement, I would say almost all points of agreement. |
| 0:51.3 | Perhaps that hasn't been conveyed. The communication, as you know, has been blown to pieces. |
| 0:56.6 | They're unable to talk to each other. But we've had very strong talks. Mr. Whitkoff and Mr. Kushner had |
| 1:03.2 | them. They went, I would say perfectly. I would say that if they carry through with that, it'll end that problem, |
| 1:14.5 | that conflict. And I think it'll end it very, very substantially. We have very much in mind |
| 1:19.4 | our partners in the Middle East. We've had great relationships with a lot of them, as you know. |
| 1:24.6 | Oh boy, where to start. Donald Trump is claiming that he's had talks with Iranian officials, |
| 1:32.6 | which will mark the end of the conflict. |
| 1:35.6 | Great, but just one problem. |
| 1:38.1 | The Iranians have denied all knowledge of these talks. |
| 1:42.4 | So who are we going to believe? |
| 1:43.9 | So what has changed over the course of a weekend |
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