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The Two Matts

Trump’s Iran war could not be going more wrong

The Two Matts

The New World

Politics, Government, News, News Commentary

4.2577 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This Matts ad hoc pod episode takes stock of the first days of Operation Epic Fury and wonders if this is the war when it’s going well (as Donald Trump insists) what does it look like when it’s going badly? Oil through the roof, stock market crashes, service personnel coming home in coffins, regional allies being drone-attacked and now a new Supreme Leader who hates America even more than his dad did. Also - can Keir Starmer take Tony Blair’s rebuke and turn it into electoral advantage? And are we seeing the emergence of a Trump dynasty that will influence global politics for decades to come? Enjoy!


Produced by Matt Withers


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0:00.0

Well, his dad's just been blown up by Trump.

0:05.0

So he's not in the Let's Do a Deal with Trump camp.

0:09.0

We know that.

0:10.0

Trump in his head, I think, the more we look at it, thought that he could do in Iran what he did in Venezuela.

0:18.0

That is not going to happen in Iran.

0:25.6

This must be the first known record of regime change. So as a quote, successful regime change, where they've ended up with a guy who's even more hostile than the one they've just changed.

0:35.6

Hello and happy Monday.

0:38.6

Happy Monday, one and all.

0:42.5

This is a special because so much is happening as we guessed it might, Matt.

0:43.5

As we warned.

0:49.1

The world is moving at a rate of knots, an uncomfortable rate of knots, I think one might say.

0:50.2

Yeah, absolutely.

1:12.3

I mean, I was thinking this morning about what I think about what has happened so far. And I was reminded of that old joke about the country bumpkin who's asked by a tourist directions. And the guy says, well, I wouldn't start here. Right. My general feeling about the war so far is I wouldn't start here. Every, every, literally every hour there's something new.

1:16.4

And just literally before logging on, I was watching Ursula von der Leyen giving his speech,

1:23.3

which I would like to read with more care.

1:25.2

And she was saying that Europe no longer rely on the old rules-based order,

1:32.1

which is an amazing thing for a European Commission President to say.

1:35.8

I mean, just as a statement.

1:37.6

So I guess that, I guess the big news in the last 24 hours,

1:41.0

and it is, and it is very significant, that um wittaba kameini has been named

1:47.0

um by the wonderfully named assembly of experts uh as the new supreme leader in succession to his

1:55.3

father who was killed uh in the first wave of strikes and this is a very mean, it's a strong move in the sense that what you see here is,

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