Is Iran beating Trump in his own war?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Trump has made it clear he thinks it’s time to end the war with Iran. There’s only one problem: Iran is not so sure it wants to. By using cheap, fairly low tech drones it’s managed to strike cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The message it’s sending out is clear: we can disrupt the flow and the price of oil from our waters. The regime today has told the world to brace for the price of a barrel of oil to rocket to $200. It’s the last thing Trump wants to hear. So has Iran got Trump over a barrel (of oil)? And what, if anything, can he do about it?
Later, why Starmer has had his best fortnight in the job - and why Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch seem to have forgotten about the sovereignty they claimed was so important it made Brexit necessary.
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| 0:11.4 | If they do anything to stop the flow of oil or goods within the straight of Hermuz, |
| 0:16.7 | they will be hit by the world's most powerful military 20 times harder than they have been hit thus far. |
| 0:23.4 | That is Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's spokesperson in the White House yesterday. |
| 0:29.3 | That's all well and good. |
| 0:30.9 | But why has the world's most powerful military shown itself to be singularly incapable of stopping attacks in the Straits of Hormuz. |
| 0:40.5 | The bigger question is, who now controls this war? |
| 0:44.7 | Donald Trump wants it to be over, but is Iran now pulling all the strings? |
| 0:50.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:56.5 | The Newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 0:58.3 | It's John. |
| 0:59.0 | It's Emily. |
| 0:59.7 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:00.4 | And as we were saying there, so much of the focus on the war is now about who controls and whether anyone can control against Iran. |
| 1:09.9 | The highly strategic strait of Humu's, as we've been talking about for the last two weeks, where so much of the world's oil and gas flows. |
| 1:18.4 | Three ships were hit in the last 24 hours by unknown projectiles in the straits abutting Iran. |
| 1:25.5 | Two of those ships have sustained damage, another which the Thai |
| 1:29.2 | Navy has identified as a Thai bulk carrier has caught fire, forcing the crew to evacuate. |
| 1:35.1 | Meanwhile, the US Department of War has said that it has eliminated 16 Iranian mine-laying |
| 1:41.7 | vessels near the straits. That's despite the fact that Donald Trump had initially said there had been no reports of Iran placing mines. |
| 1:50.2 | And meanwhile, the Israeli military is saying it has begun a wide-scale wave, whatever that means, |
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