Trump demands that Iran surrender
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
US President Donald Trump demands unconditional surrender from Iran on social media, and the Iran-Israel conflict causes Trump to leave the G7 summit early. Plus, the EU relaxes merger rules on defence and Meta will bring advertisements onto its messaging platform WhatsApp.
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Trump calls for Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’
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| 0:32.2 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:34.2 | Today is Wednesday, June 18th, |
| 0:36.1 | and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:38.4 | U.S. President Donald Trump said his patience is wearing thin with Iran, and the European Union |
| 0:44.2 | wants to make it easier to invest in defense companies. Plus, META sees a blank canvas in WhatsApp |
| 0:50.8 | and wants to paint it with ads. I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to |
| 0:56.4 | start your day. |
| 1:04.8 | An unconditional surrender. That's what Donald Trump wants from Iran. The U.S. President posted the demand on social media yesterday. |
| 1:12.6 | Trump went to truth social a few times to talk about the conflict between Iran and Israel that started last week. |
| 1:19.6 | He said that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Hamei was, quote, an easy target, but clarified that the U.S. would not kill him for now. |
| 1:26.6 | Trump is ordering more of a U.S. would not kill him for now. |
| 1:31.0 | Trump is ordering more of a U.S. military presence in the Middle East. |
| 1:35.8 | The big concern on everyone's mind is that this could spill over into a wider conflict. |
| 1:48.9 | Things have ratcheted up so much between Israel and Iran that Trump made an early exit from the G7 summit in Canada. |
| 1:55.7 | The U.S. is a key player in these types of multilateral meetings. So what does its absence mean for the group? |
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