Trump announces tariffs on Iran's allies
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
President Trump says countries trading with Iran will face an immediate 25% percent tariff on business with the United States, in response to Tehran's deadly suppression of protests. China alone is estimated to buy around 90% of the oil that Iran exports to the global market. As Washington considers additional action, we hear from Iranians who have lost loved ones in the lethal response to the nationwide demonstrations.
Also: we hear from a Syrian man who was duped into fighting in Ukraine by a former Russian teacher, who promised hundreds of foreign recruits they could avoid combat. The US states of Minnesota and Illinois sue the Trump administration to try to halt mass deployments of ICE agents. A mobile app has gone viral in China as young people living alone seek reassurance that someone will be alerted if they go missing. More than 100 environmental officers in India are searching for an elephant that's believed to have killed at least 22 people in the state of Jharkhand in the past week. Archaeologists celebrate the discovery of what could be the largest ever Roman villa in Wales. And the man whose body began brewing its own alcohol.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Jean-Aat Jolil, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 13th of January, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.2 | President Trump says countries doing business with Iran |
| 0:22.3 | will face an immediate 25% tariff on trade with the US. A BBC investigation reveals how one |
| 0:30.4 | woman has lured hundreds of foreign men to fight for Russia. Minnesota and Illinois are suing |
| 0:37.3 | the Trump administration over the mass |
| 0:39.4 | deployment of immigration enforcement agents in their states. |
| 0:46.3 | Also in this podcast? It's absolutely exploded. And that's despite the fact that some are saying |
| 0:53.0 | it is a pretty grim idea, isn't it? |
| 0:55.0 | I mean, let's face it. |
| 0:55.9 | The viral Chinese app for young people living on their own called Are You Dead Yet? |
| 1:07.8 | President Trump has repeatedly threatened to strike Iran if its regime continues its brutal crackdown on the huge crowds that have turned out for the past two weeks to demand a better future. |
| 1:20.3 | Witnesses have talked of security forces opening fire on unarmed protesters with Kalashnikov-style assault rifles. Hundreds, possibly thousands of people, |
| 1:31.3 | have been killed. And on Monday, Mr Trump announced not military action against Iran, but a |
| 1:37.3 | favorite measure of his, tariffs of 25% against any country that trades with Iran. In a moment, we'll look at the impact this is likely to have. |
| 1:46.8 | But first, despite an internet and communications blackout since last Thursday, |
| 1:51.9 | we have been able to identify some of the people killed in recent days. |
| 1:57.3 | BBC Persian's Gior-Gol tells us about one of them. |
| 2:03.1 | Rubinia Aminian, a 23-year-old Kurdish student at University in Tehran, was studying fashion design |
| 2:10.9 | and dreamed of moving to Milan to pursue a career in fashion. |
| 2:16.4 | Like many of her generation who challenged the regime's social restrictions on women, |
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