Israeli Attacks On Lebanon Threaten US-Iran Ceasefire
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Following his threat to destroy “a whole civilisation” if his demands to Iran were not met, Donald Trump has now declared complete victory, with Iran and the US entering a 2-week ceasefire.
Plus: Esfandyar Batmanghelidj weighs in on whether that ceasefire can hold, and Aaron explains how China could come out on top from the war on Iran.
With Michael Walker & Aaron Bastani.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Navarra live coming up tonight. There is a ceasefire in the Middle East, |
| 0:08.0 | but with Israel continuing to bombard Lebanon. Can it hold? That's a headline that gives me |
| 0:14.5 | deja vu, actually. It sounds a bit like when there were those ceasefires in the war on Gaza, |
| 0:18.3 | of course this one, a ceasefire in the war on Iran. |
| 0:26.2 | I also speak to as Fandja, Batman, Gellich, to examine what has actually been agreed between the US and Iran in this ceasefire deal. |
| 0:29.5 | As you've probably gathered by now, it's all a little unclear. |
| 0:32.4 | And finally, we'll discuss why the real winner from this disastrous war could be China. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm Michael Walker, and I'm joined tonight by Aaron Bastani. |
| 0:41.7 | Great to have you in, lots to chew into. |
| 0:45.1 | My pleasure to be joining you, Michael. Big show. |
| 0:47.2 | Did you have a sense of relief this morning? |
| 0:49.0 | I mean, you know, we're going to talk about how this ceasefire deal, you know, |
| 0:53.0 | it's definitely not watertight. I don't think |
| 0:55.4 | we can clearly say that the future for Iran and the Middle East in general is bright, but my sort |
| 1:01.6 | of just the emotional dread of having Donald Trump saying, you know, by 8 p.m. this evening, I'm going to |
| 1:08.1 | destroy murder an entire civilization. You know, I suppose I would have |
| 1:12.5 | predicted that there was going to be some kind of walk back, a tacco, whatever you want to call it. |
| 1:16.2 | But it was a relief when that came out. Whatever, we think about what has been agreed. |
| 1:21.9 | Well, it was this morning, but I was actually up at 1am or whatever it was. So I saw it then, |
| 1:25.5 | and that was certainly a relief. But almost |
| 1:29.5 | immediately it was quite clear to me some of the things we talked about over the rest of the |
| 1:33.4 | hour and maybe a bit. It became clear that actually this wasn't necessarily a ceasefire that |
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