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🗓️ 26 March 2026

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Donald Trump insists Iran is still interested in cutting a peace deal despite Tehran rejecting the US plan. Iran has now put forward a five-point counterproposal and says the war will end on its own terms. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior international correspondent, Julian Borger – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:10.2	Almost every statement he's made since the beginning of the war has had a contradiction in it.
0:15.6	He says the Iranians are begging for a deal.
0:18.5	They are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly, but they're afraid to say it.
0:23.0	The Iranians want full lifting of sanctions.
0:25.8	Overall strategy is one of defiance, and they have become very good at this international
0:31.6	trolling.
0:32.4	It's Iran, you are fired.
0:34.1	Because it's also about his standing in the world.
0:36.6	Iran has rejected Donald Trump's peace
0:39.4	plan, despite the president saying
0:41.2	they're begging for a deal.
0:43.2	Meanwhile, thousands of U.S. military
0:45.1	personnel are being sent to the Middle East.
0:47.3	So is Trump's pitch for peace
0:49.4	falling flat? From the
0:51.3	Guardians today in focus, this is the latest
0:53.3	with me, Lucy Hoff.
0:57.4	Joining me is Julian Borger, the Guardian's senior international correspondent. Julian, thanks so
1:02.1	much for coming up to the studio. As ever, as we enter, well, we're in the middle of the fourth
1:08.0	week of this war. It's a somewhat confusing picture. Donald Trump
1:12.3	pressurizing Iran overnight to accept a deal to end the war, a 15-point plan that will come
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