Trump Walks Back Threat to Bomb Iran’s Power Plants
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🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Trump backtracks on Iran threat as “very good conversations” have been had…
Plus: We interview Hooman Majd on whether Iran’s deterrence strategy is working, and Liberal Centrists have lost the argument on Israel.
With Michael Walker and Barry Malone.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Navarra Live coming up tonight. |
| 0:07.0 | Trump has walked back his threats to bomb Iran's power plants. |
| 0:12.0 | He says it's because there have been very positive negotiations. |
| 0:15.0 | The Iranians have said no negotiations have taken place, so very Trumpian. |
| 0:19.0 | We will also, or I have a brilliant interview with you, |
| 0:21.9 | with Human Majd. He's a really, really interesting Iranian author or Iranian-American author, |
| 0:28.2 | Mfinka. Such an interesting conversation. And we will be discussing the viral clip |
| 0:33.6 | between the editor-in-chief of The Economist and Tucker Carlson, whether or not Israel has a right to exist or whether the question even makes sense. I'm delighted to be joined all evening by Barry Malone. How you doing? Hello? Yeah, very good. Good to be with you. Nice to see you redecorated. It's nice. There's a wide shot now. We've just had to clean up. I just told Barry to get some of his stuff off the table because you can see it all now. You know, he's complete soft. I was nesting in Navarra. I don't you're not right. I'm the real nestor. I'm the real person who spreads out all my crap around the office. But I've had to sharpen up a little bit. If you'd like to support our work, and get us some organisers in the, maybe. You can sign up at Navaramedia.com forward slash support. |
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| 1:23.6 | On Saturday, Donald Trump made this pretty terrifying fret. He said, if Iran doesn't |
| 1:29.1 | fully open without fret, the strait of Hormuz, within 48 hours from this exact point in time, |
| 1:35.3 | the United States of America will hit and obliterate the various power plants, starting with |
| 1:40.4 | the biggest one first. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. |
| 1:46.0 | So that was a huge threat. |
| 1:49.5 | The idea of taking out Iran's power plants, |
| 1:52.1 | that would completely just crush the country, |
| 1:54.7 | would be sort of completely impossible to live, essentially. |
| 1:59.0 | So, like, that would just be an enormous escalation. |
| 2:02.6 | Iran, as you'd imagine, didn't budge. They didn't say, oh, okay, we're scared of your tweet, so we're going |
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