Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:08.0 | Remember it all starts with they cannot have a nuclear weapon. |
| 0:12.0 | That is exactly where progress was being made in negotiations when Trump went to war against Iran, |
| 0:18.0 | says Norway's foreign minister, and he joins me with the view from Europe suffering economic shocks |
| 0:23.5 | and wanting this to end now. |
| 0:25.6 | Then, they were dragging me while I was undressed |
| 0:28.0 | with my hands and legs bound. |
| 0:29.8 | Horror stories from the West Bank, |
| 0:31.9 | a settler violence spikes under a shield of infunity. |
| 0:35.6 | I speak with the Palestinian ambassador to the UK. |
| 0:38.3 | Plus, |
| 0:39.3 | You're so confident of success, strategic success, you don't have any backup plan to deal with the enemy lashing back. |
| 0:49.3 | The escalation trap. Political scientist Robert Pape tells Hari Srinivasan, |
| 0:55.0 | this US war may be headed towards strategic failure. Welcome to the program, everyone, I'm Christiana Manpur in London. |
| 1:22.9 | Donald Trump took the United States to war, and now he's trying to find a way out of it, |
| 1:26.9 | as several thousand |
| 1:27.9 | airborne troops and Marines head to the region. The U.S. President says he gave Iran a 15-point |
| 1:33.7 | peace plan. But Iran responded with its own plan, a list of five conditions for ending the war, |
| 1:39.4 | and so the bombardments continue, with Iran holding the economic sword of Damocles over whole region's head. |
| 1:46.2 | Europe is quite literally stuck in a quandary between supporting its most powerful ally |
| 1:51.1 | and wanting to keep out of a war it rejects. |
| 1:54.3 | While NATO's Secretary-General says Trump is acting to keep the world safe, |
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