Trump is ‘stuck in a stalemate’ in Iran (with Leon Panetta) | The Conversation
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:27.3 | I do not see a deal that the United States can agree to right now, |
| 0:35.0 | and that means we have a prolonged war on our hands. |
| 0:40.6 | Hello, hello, and welcome to the conversation. I'm Dasha Burns. And on this show, I talk to |
| 0:45.6 | the most compelling and sometimes unexpected power players in Washington and beyond. And this |
| 0:50.8 | week, I sat down with Leon Panetta. Panetta served as both Secretary of Defense and CIA |
| 0:57.0 | director in the Obama administration. So in this moment of turbulent conflict with Iran, I was eager to |
| 1:03.5 | hear his perspective on where the war is and where it's headed. In the case of Iran, we're not |
| 1:08.8 | going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon. And we're not |
| 1:11.8 | going to let that happen. We're dealing with people that want to make a deal very much. And we'll |
| 1:15.8 | see whether or not they can make a deal that's satisfactory to us. We dug deep into the |
| 1:20.6 | objectives of the Iran war, the execution of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. relationship with Israel, |
| 1:26.9 | and more broadly, his views on the future |
| 1:29.2 | of American foreign policy. But before we get to this week's interview, I wanted to note that we're |
| 1:34.1 | coming up on the one-year anniversary of the conversation. To celebrate, we want to hear from you. |
| 1:40.2 | What questions do you have for me about the show, how we put it together, or the state of politics at this moment? |
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