Is Iran schooling Trump in the art of the deal?
5/27/202627 min
This week President Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have said negotiations with Iran are going well and suggested a deal could be days away. Iran has disputed this.
Donald Trump says he wants “a great deal for all or no deal at all” but leaked details of a possible plan have some wondering if one side might be coming out on top.
We speak to the BBC’s International Editor, Jeremy Bowen, and ask if this might be the week Donald Trump loses the art of the deal – and the perhaps the whole war – with Iran.
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Producers: Sam Chantarasak and Lucy Pawle
Digital Producer: Matt Pintus
Executive producer: James Shield
Studio Director: James Piper
Sound engineer: Travis Evans
Senior news editor: China Collins
Photo: An Iranian woman walks next to an anti-US mural in Tehran, Iran. (Credit: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/Shutterstock)
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First 90 secondsTristan Redman· Host0:00
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Tristan Redman· Host1:03
In January 2020, a person with some first-hand experience of the Middle East wrote, "Iran never won a war but never lost a negotiation." Those words were written by Donald Trump in a tweet on the same day that the United States killed Iran's most prominent military commander.