Is Trump about to put boots on the ground in Iran?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A week ago President Trump was promising peace with Iran. This week he looks set to land marines on Kharg island - with a threat to obliterate it and seize Iranian oil. Even Israel, which has been aggressive in striking targets in Iran, has warned against a ground invasion. And Keir Starmer has restated today that this is not Britain's war.
Is Trump finishing a project he first thought about back in 1988? Are we really about to see an amphibious landing and the ratcheting up of casualties? Or is Trump just buffeting around like a man without a plan?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Trump's latest salvo, he's threatening to obliterate Iran's Kag Island if he can't get the deal he's offered. |
| 0:13.1 | I don't think the Iranians think at the moment they are on the edge of defeat. |
| 0:17.8 | The fact that American Marines are now threatening to take your island |
| 0:21.5 | does not make you want to come to the table. There are options for America. Something is going on here. |
| 0:27.0 | Trump likes the sort of element of surprise. What are we doing? Putting boots on the ground. In Iran, |
| 0:33.7 | are you mad? But they have to open it up. They have to open up the straight of Trump. |
| 0:42.3 | I mean, harmless. |
| 0:46.3 | Excuse me for... |
| 0:48.3 | I'm so sorry. |
| 0:50.3 | Such a terrible mistake. |
| 0:52.3 | The fake news will say, he accidentally said, there's no accidents with me, not too many. |
| 0:59.1 | If there were, would have a major story. |
| 1:01.7 | Well, we do, and there are. And once again, Trump is laughing about something that's left the rest of the world reeling. |
| 1:09.8 | But is he about to put boots on the ground in Iran now? |
| 1:13.7 | And where will that leave the rest of the world? |
| 1:15.9 | But putting boots on the ground, |
| 1:18.5 | trying to forcibly take Haag Island, |
| 1:21.8 | involves the most enormous risks to American lives. |
| 1:26.6 | Is Donald Trump really prepared to do that? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:35.6 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's meatless. And we're going to start with Donald Trump's A Truth Social Post, which classically in Donald Trump, |
| 1:47.5 | fashion, looks both ways at once. So let me just read a bit of it to you. |
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