Will War In Iran Really End "Very Soon"?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today, President Trump has told reporters Iran war will be over “very soon”, but not this week.
Meanwhile, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says this will be the “most intense” day of US strikes on Iran so far. So how close is the war to ending?
Alex and James are joined by Caitríona Perry, Chief Anchor of BBC News in Washington, to try to decode what Trump might mean.
Meanwhile, Trump has also threatened Iran with "death, fire, and fury" if it continues to disrupt shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, which carries around a fifth of global oil supplies.
Michelle Wiese Bockmann, senior maritime intelligence analyst at Windward, joins Alex and James to explain why the Strait is so vital.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Now, after the episode on Monday night, there was a two-hour period of newscast jitters. |
| 0:12.8 | We're based on some quotes from President Trump, where he said the war is very complete, pretty much. |
| 0:18.3 | There was a lot of speculation about whether something big was about to |
| 0:22.3 | happen, whether this was about to end. We might have all been heading back in, Alex, for a late-night |
| 0:26.5 | emergency episode. Yeah, and then there were another series of comments from Donald Trump in |
| 0:31.2 | various interviews, addresses and press conferences, which suggested probably the war in a round |
| 0:36.0 | wasn't coming to an imminent end, |
| 0:37.7 | so there was no need for an emergency episode of newscast. |
| 0:40.7 | And we're going to unpick all of those quotes and the various comments from Donald Trump |
| 0:43.9 | about what is happening in Iran from a US perspective. |
| 0:47.7 | And given the chance of emergency episodes at the moment is, |
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