No deal in Iran negotiations.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Navy will impose a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz after peace negotiations with Iranian officials failed to produce a breakthrough. While Iran has largely restricted transit through the strait over the past month, it has allowed some ships to pass through by paying a toll; in other cases, vessels linked to friendly nations like China have been granted passage. President Trump suggested the U.S. blockade will shut down the waterway entirely, though U.S. Central Command later said the blockade would not apply to ships passing through the strait to or from non-Iranian ports.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:12.5 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle Podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. Today is Monday, April 13th, and we are covering the latest in the Iran war negotiations. |
| 0:36.2 | Before we jump in today, a quick heads up. In case you missed it |
| 0:39.2 | on Friday, we released a listener, reader, mailbag as a podcast and a newsletter edition. |
| 0:47.0 | And it drove a ton of conversation. In particular, one of our answers to a question about |
| 0:52.2 | Tangle being more left-leaning now than it used to be. |
| 0:56.2 | I have a lot of feelings about it. |
| 0:57.9 | I answered that question. |
| 0:59.7 | I think it's worth listening to, please check it out if you haven't yet. |
| 1:04.5 | I think it was a really great episode. |
| 1:05.9 | We covered a ton of ground. |
| 1:07.3 | We answered all manner of questions about race and Artemis II mission about the |
| 1:14.1 | pandemic and our coverage of Donald Trump and what that used to look like. There were questions |
| 1:19.3 | about AI and the Supreme Court. It was a big, winding, awesome mega edition that I think is |
| 1:26.8 | really worth your time. So just giving it a plug here to |
| 1:29.4 | check it out in case you missed it. All right, with that, I'm going to send it over to Will |
| 1:33.4 | for today's main topic, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 1:43.9 | Thanks, Isaac. All right, here are today's quick hits. |
| 1:47.9 | Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban conceded to opposition leader Peter Majar in the country's |
| 1:54.0 | parliamentary election, ending Orban's 16-year rule. |
| 1:58.3 | Majar's party won 53.6% of the vote compared to 37.8% won by Orban's party. |
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