NYT: Supreme Leader’s Face Severely Burned, Struggles to Speak

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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US military officials are developing new plans to target Iran’s capabilities in the Strait of Hormuz in the event the current ceasefire with Iran falls apart, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	Tonight that short-term excursion turns into, don't rush me,
0:33.6	what the President's new tone and lack of timeline mean for the war with Iran.
0:39.3	Plus, a U.S. soldier charged with betting on the Maduro capture and make him bank on the prediction market, how the DOJ caught him.
0:47.3	Also tonight, more Republican freak out over the President's plan to bailout-spirit airlines.
0:53.3	The President says he has a plan for it
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1:00.8	moment, they join me live tonight on Laura Coates Live.
1:15.7	Good evening. I'm Victor Blackwell in for Laura. The war that President Trump once said would take four to six weeks is now in week eight. And tonight, he's trying to give some reasons why.
1:22.7	He says he took a break. He says he gave Iran a break. And now he's telling everyone, what's the rush? How long are you willing to wait until you get a unified response? Don't rush me, Jeff. I don't want to rush myself. You know, because every story says, oh, Trump is under time pressure. I'm not, no, no, no, you know who's under time pressure? They are. I don't want to rush it. I want to take my time. We have plenty of time. And I want to get a great deal.
1:47.7	Okay, so there's no clear timeline. We don't know when talks will happen again or if they will happen again.
1:53.7	The president says that he's waiting on Iran's proposal and he's suggesting that maybe that'll take a while.
2:00.7	They have all new leadership and they're fighting like cats and dogs for who's going to control.
2:06.0	They're delaying it because we don't know who to deal with.
2:09.5	They are in, you know, they know who the leader is in this country.
2:13.0	We don't know who the leader is in Iran.
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