Trump: US will be Iran's 'worst nightmare' if there's no peace plan
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
State media in Iran say officials have sent their response to a fifteen-point US plan to end the war and are now awaiting an American reply. Speaking at the White House, President Trump again insisted that Iran was "begging" for a deal despite repeated denials in Tehran.
Also on the programme, lawyers have tussled over how to fund the defence of the ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro at his second court hearing since his capture by US troops; and, the IOC has banned transgender women from all Olympic women's sports.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. I'm Rebecca Kesbby. |
| 0:15.4 | Today, President Trump repeated his claim that Iran is, quote, begging to make a deal now that they are, in his words, |
| 0:22.7 | militarily obliterated. His comments made at a cabinet meeting came as the Iranian news agency, |
| 0:29.5 | Tasnim, which is affiliated with the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reports that Tehran |
| 0:35.3 | has responded to the US's reported 15-point peace plan, |
| 0:39.9 | though for days Iran has denied that any negotiations as such are taking place. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, chairing the session, President Trump had this to say about the Iranians. |
| 0:49.8 | They are begging to make a deal, not me. |
| 0:52.4 | They're begging to make a deal. |
| 0:54.0 | They're not fools. They're very smart make a deal. They're not fools. |
| 0:54.9 | They're very smart, actually, in a certain way. |
| 1:11.4 | And they're great negotiators. I say they're lousy fighters, but they're great negotiators. Well, the U.S. Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, says the military campaign so far is a pure American success. but Iranian missiles have continued to land in the region and US ground forces are still on route to the Gulf |
| 1:14.6 | with... American success, but Iranian missiles have continued to land in the region and US ground forces |
| 1:13.0 | are still on route to the Gulf. We'll look at the military situation in a moment. First, let's focus |
| 1:17.8 | on the diplomacy and we're joined live now by our chief international correspondent, Lees Doucette, |
| 1:22.7 | who's in the studio. Lees, first of all, what do we know about this 15-point plan and the response? And is it any |
| 1:29.3 | different to what they were talking about before the war erupted? Yes, there is a suggestion that |
| 1:34.2 | this so-called 15-point plan is actually a rehashing of a plan as way back as May 2025. And that |
| 1:41.8 | was before the June war, the 12-day war in June, and then since then |
| 1:47.1 | we've had another war. There was a 15-point plan that was released. It's not clear whether it was |
| 1:53.3 | the actual one, because actually at least one of the items was repeated twice about the Boucher |
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