Trump: ‘Iran appears to be standing down’
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🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:04.9 | Washington Post is this Colby? |
| 0:07.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.6 | Hi, Stephanie McCreement from the Washington Post. |
| 0:13.4 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Martine Powers. |
| 0:19.1 | It's Wednesday, January 8th. |
| 0:23.5 | Today, Trump signals de-escalation with Iran. |
| 0:27.3 | Life inside the Senate in 2020. |
| 0:29.8 | And outsourcing handwritten cards to robots. |
| 0:39.2 | If you're an Iranian, the past 24 to 36 hours has been quite crazy. |
| 0:46.6 | Ishaan Therore covers foreign affairs. |
| 0:54.8 | You saw the scenes of this incredible spectacle of the funeral of Karsten Solman. |
| 1:04.1 | At that event, very tragically, there was such a crush of people that had to stand people |
| 1:09.3 | to dozens of deaths. |
| 1:13.0 | Then in the evening, May Tuesday night, Iranians mustered an actual military response to Karsten |
| 1:19.0 | Solman's killing and launched this fuselage of missiles at US targets in Iraq. |
| 1:25.7 | And then, not long after confirmation that these missiles were fired, we saw reports |
| 1:30.2 | of a Ukrainian passenger jet that left Theran, explode and crash, killing everybody on board. |
| 1:38.4 | And at the same time, we also got reports of two earthquakes striking the country, apparently |
| 1:43.8 | in locations not very far from major nuclear facilities in Iran. |
| 1:51.4 | As long as I'm president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear |
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