Professor Dan Plesch from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Dan explains how the US military’s decades-long preparations for war with Iran appears to have been thrown off course by poor planning from the White House.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Cay Johnston spoke about conflicting reports from the US that the President has extended a pause on striking Iranian energy facilities and talks of deploying 10,000 troops to the region.

Sir Bill Browder ,Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and Russian finance expert, spoke to us on the Trump Report about Marco Rubio’s confusing comments over the United States objectives in Iran. Rubio failed to mention regime change or crippling Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Sir Bill Browder also spoke about Donald Trump’s continued pressure on the UK to help with the Strait of Hormuz crisis.

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Dr H.A. Hellyer, senior fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and the Center for American Progress, joins Maddie Hale to discuss Donald Trump’s claims Iran wants a ceasefire, whether the US has “attained” the goal of stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon and three world leaders hold national addresses on the same day.

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