Iran won the war

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Politics, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Deal or no deal? Doesn’t matter. The war on Iran has irrevocably transformed the country and the region. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Kelli Wessinger, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. An anti-President Trump billboard on the street in Tehran. Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The newly 80-year-old president of the United States is in France for the G7 summit.
0:08.0	Reporters keep asking about the peace deal.
0:10.0	He says he'll be signing with Iran this Friday, mostly because no one knows the deets.
0:14.0	He gave him $1.7 billion in cash, green cash, from banks.
0:20.0	But the president wants to talk about Barack Obama?
0:22.7	They tried to bribe their way out of it.
0:25.2	And you know what the Iranians did?
0:27.9	They laughed at Obama and they said he's a stupid son of a bitch.
0:31.7	Why so salty, sir?
0:33.3	Oh, J.K. Rowling, I know why.
0:34.8	President Trump didn't achieve any of his objectives in the war with Iran,
0:38.1	a war that's cost Americans maybe $100 billion so far,
0:42.6	and Trump might end up giving Iran $300 billion to settle this war.
0:47.1	Compare that to Obama's...
0:48.7	1.7 billion and hundreds of millions of dollars.
0:53.1	Iran won the war.
0:54.6	Coming up on Today Explained from Vox.
0:56.9	Okay, thank you very much.
0:58.1	Thank you.
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