{"id":25896,"date":"2026-05-13T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/25896\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:40:43","slug":"irans-hardliners-will-not-listen-to-anyone-even-chinas-xi-jinping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/25896\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s hardliners will not listen to anyone &#8211; even China\u2019s Xi Jinping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Iran\u2019s hardliners will not listen to anyone - even China\u2019s Xi Jinping\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UPPg6yskQNo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIran\u2019s hardliners will not listen to anyone &#8211; even China\u2019s Xi Jinping<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWeeks of American and Israeli airstrikes inflicted grievous losses on Iran\u2019s military. Or so we thought. <\/p>\n<p>Now, US intelligence assessments suggest that Iran retains 70 percent of the missiles and launch vehicles it had before the war &#8211; including most of the sites threatening the Strait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p>Holly Dagres joins Roland Oliphant and Sophia Yan to unpack the implications. She also explains why Iran\u2019s hardliners are unlikely to listen to China\u2019s leader Xi Jinping, have stepped up execution of opponents and alleged spies at home, and are nose-diving the economy with a crippling internet black out. This is the latest from Donald Trump\u2019s war against Iran \u2013 which will overshadow his summit later this week with Xi.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights<br \/>\nIran retains 70 percent of its missile arsenal<br \/>\nWhy Tehran&#8217;s hardliners will resist pressure from China<\/p>\n<p>CONTRIBUTORS:<\/p>\n<p>Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant<br \/>\nSophia Yan, senior foreign correspondent, @sophia_yan<br \/>\nHolly Dagres, Washington Institute, @hdagres<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Peter Shevlin<br \/>\nExecutive Producers: Venetia Rainey &#038; Louisa Wells<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sign up to the Telegraph&#8217;s free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/secure\/newsletter\/from-the-editor\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Get the latest headlines: www.telegraph.co.uk?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Stay ahead with a Telegraph digital subscription:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/subscription\/store?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/ and https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/telegraph are websites of The Telegraph, the UK&#8217;s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.<\/p>\n<p>#Iran #Israel #USAirstrikes #MiddleEast #IranMissiles #StraitOfHormuz #Geopolitics #WorldNews #IranIsraelConflict #USForeignPolicy #China #XiJinping #Tehran #MilitaryAnalysis #PodcastClip #CurrentAffairs #GlobalPolitics #RolandOliphant #SophiaYan #HollyDagres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s hardliners will not listen to anyone &#8211; even China\u2019s Xi Jinping Weeks of American and Israeli airstrikes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13458,27847,395,8847,27846,27843,27841,38,2625,27842,1467,9559,39,1772,709,1736,31,338,339,27844,27845,27,196,340,337,341,412,27840,235,8726],"class_list":{"0":"post-25896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-telegraph","8":"tag-china-iran-relations","9":"tag-current-affairs-podcast","10":"tag-geopolitics","11":"tag-global-politics","12":"tag-holly-dagres","13":"tag-intelligence-assessment","14":"tag-internet-blackout-iran","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-iran-economy","17":"tag-iran-hardliners","18":"tag-iran-military","19":"tag-iran-missiles","20":"tag-israel","21":"tag-israeli-airstrikes","22":"tag-middle-east-conflict","23":"tag-military-analysis","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-news-publisher","26":"tag-newspaper","27":"tag-roland-oliphant","28":"tag-sophia-yan","29":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","30":"tag-tehran","31":"tag-telegraph","32":"tag-the-telegraph","33":"tag-uk-news","34":"tag-united-states","35":"tag-us-airstrikes","36":"tag-world-news","37":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}