President Trump's foul-mouthed threat to Iran
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Trump uses expletives to warn of attacks on Iranian infrastructure unless the Strait of Hormuz is opened to shipping. We hear from our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, and ask where this threatened escalation in the war leaves America's allies in the Gulf.
Also in the programme: Hungary and Serbia say they've foiled a plot to blow up a pipeline, but is it a 'false flag' operation ahead of the upcoming Hungarian election? And the American museum curator in her seventies who has become a social media star.
(Photo: President Donald Trump delivers address to the nation about the Iran war on 1 April 2026. Credit: Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Rebecca Kesb. |
| 0:15.3 | Early this morning, President Trump announced via social media |
| 0:18.8 | that the airman missing in southern Iran since Friday when his F-15 fighter jet was shot down had been found and rescued. |
| 0:26.8 | The operation involved hundreds of special forces, personnel and several aircraft. |
| 0:31.5 | As Mr Trump posted himself, it was one of the most daring search and rescue operations in US history, |
| 0:38.1 | and we'll have more details on that incredible story later in the program. |
| 0:42.1 | But within a few hours of that social media post, |
| 0:45.5 | President Trump was making new headlines, |
| 0:47.8 | with a post laden with expletives, threats to Iranian infrastructure, |
| 0:52.9 | and a rather odd religious comment. |
| 0:55.3 | We voiced up the post and added the necessary bleep, though you may still find it offensive. |
| 1:00.9 | Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran. |
| 1:07.0 | There'll be nothing like it. |
| 1:09.0 | Open the fucking stray, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. |
| 1:13.3 | Just watch. Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump. |
| 1:19.6 | Well, the Trump administration has been looking for positive headlines about its campaign against Iran for days. |
| 1:26.6 | The successful mission to rescue |
| 1:28.5 | the airmen could have been it, but these latest comments have rather overshadowed that achievement. |
| 1:33.9 | And there's been some really angry reactions, including within the US to the Post. |
| 1:39.5 | An Iranian official dismissed the remarks as insults and nonsense. Let's get the latest with our chief international correspondent, Lee's Doucette. |
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