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The Owen Jones Podcast

Trump HUMILIATED by Iran – Even Allies Admit It

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:00.0

The German Chancellor Friedrich Meuse has said that Iran is humiliating the United States.

0:06.3

He says the Iranian leadership has been negotiating very skillfully.

0:11.0

Quite the U.S. from the German Chancellor who backs the U.S. war on Iran, the U.S. Israeli war,

0:18.7

when it began, ooh, two months ago now.

0:22.2

At the same time, Donald Trump is talking now about an indefinite blockade of Iran.

0:27.8

There's talk being leaked about his advisors saying, you know, he's torn about declaring

0:34.3

victory and going home, that kind of approach.

0:36.5

Can he actually do that?

0:38.2

Brilliant guest to speak to today, who have been actually meaning to speak to you for a while

0:42.3

because I've been following his commentary all the way through this horror show, but also before

0:46.9

that, Human Majd, who is a Iranian-American author, writer, NBC contributor, fascinating commentator.

0:53.7

How you doing?

0:54.6

I'm good. Thank you. Thank you for having me on. What do you make about that?

0:58.2

The German government, Meuse, I have to say, has been, well, it's been not a successful

1:05.4

German leader, I have to say, on his own terms, that is, deeply unpopular in Germany.

1:10.4

But nonetheless, Germany, you know, I mean, it's certainly the most vocally pro-Israel, major Western European nation. So, but at the same time, they batch this war. And now he's saying that Iran is humiliated the United States. What do you make? What does you make just, what's your sense of what that kind of reflects?

1:29.2

Well, I think, I mean, I don't know exactly what goes on in his mind, given that he was,

1:34.1

as you pointed out, so, such a cheerleader, you know, and at one point was saying the Israelis

1:38.6

are doing the dirty work for Europe or for the rest of the world, which is really highly offensive to

1:44.9

the Iranians. But I mean, you know, I think it's clear from the Western European standpoint,

1:51.2

and certainly from the British standpoint that this war is not going well, that they don't see

1:56.8

a real end that will be a win for the West as a whole. And that win being completely eliminating

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