How Trump lost control of the Iran war
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has urged Iran to “get serious” about reaching an agreement before it is “too late”. It’s nice having a world leader who takes peace so seriously. It’s just a shame Iran no longer believes a word he says. They’ve laughed at his fifteen point plan and insisted the Straits of Hormuz remain operational only to friendly traffic.
NATO’s general secretary is trying to encourage member countries to get behind Trump’s plan to smooth the wheels. We talk to an Iranian activist about why this conflict has made regime change much harder for protestors and ordinary Iranians.
Later, the government is changing the rules on politicalDonations to stop foreign interference. And we dig a little deeper with one government minister into those missing McSweeney messages...
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | NATO member countries looked on at Trump's mess and said we want no part of this. |
| 0:17.3 | What hasn't happened is the regime hasn't fallen. |
| 0:22.7 | What hasn't happened is the reopening of the Strait of Hulamuz. The long-term forecast of what this is doing to, frankly, |
| 0:30.5 | the whole rest of the world on energy, is staring us in the face. The Iranians still have their boots on the windpipe of that little narrow thing |
| 0:42.3 | that the oxygen needs to flow through, the strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:47.4 | But they're doing it for two reasons. |
| 0:49.6 | Number one is they want to deflect from all of the tremendous success |
| 0:53.9 | that we're having in this |
| 0:55.0 | military operation. I won't use the word war because they say, have you used the word war, |
| 0:59.7 | that's maybe not a good thing to do. They don't like the word war because you're supposed to |
| 1:05.2 | get approval. So I'll use the word military operation, which is really what it is. It's called |
| 1:10.6 | a military decimation. |
| 1:13.3 | But they don't like the good publicity. They don't like to see us succeed. They want to see |
| 1:17.6 | our country fail. I'm sure there's someone else who says that they're conducting a special |
| 1:23.6 | military operation and not a war. Oh yeah, Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine. |
| 1:30.7 | Donald Trump has declared Iran decimated. Is he getting frustrated that they're not relinquishing |
| 1:38.9 | their power to help him out of his mess. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:48.7 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:50.3 | It's John. |
| 1:51.1 | It's mateless. |
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