{"id":71998,"date":"2026-08-04T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/71998\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:00:21","slug":"trump-vs-reality-why-iran-refuses-to-capitulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/71998\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump vs reality: why Iran refuses to capitulate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Trump vs reality: why Iran refuses to capitulate\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/af-jU94c4dE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTrump vs reality: why Iran refuses to capitulate<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn today\u2019s episode of Iran: The Latest, Roland Oliphant speaks with Danny Citrinowicz, Senior Fellow at Israel\u2019s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), about whether Trump is presenting reality in his comments on the Iran war. <\/p>\n<p>Plus, they analyse how the Iran and Russia-Ukraine wars are \u201cvery close\u201d to merging into a single global front, why US military posture is buckling in the Gulf, and how collapsing ceasefire deals in Lebanon and Gaza expose the limits of Trump\u2019s Middle East strategy. <\/p>\n<p>#Iranwar #Donald Trump #StraitofHormuz<\/p>\n<p>CONTRIBUTORS:<br \/>\nRoland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant<br \/>\nDanny Citrinowicz, senior fellow at Institute for National Security Studies @citrinowicz  <\/p>\n<p>Winner Best News and Analysis Podcast &#8211; Publisher Podcast Awards 2026<br \/>\nNominated Podcast of the Year &#8211; Society of Editors News Podcasts Awards 2026<br \/>\nNominated Best News, Politics and Current Affairs &#8211; British Podcast Awards 2026<br \/>\nThe Telegraph, Winner Podcast Publisher of the Year 2026 &#8211; Publisher Podcast Awards 2026<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Max Bower<br \/>\nVideo Producer: Peter Shevlin<br \/>\nResearcher and Social Producer: Anna Hindmarsh<br \/>\nStudio Operator: Andy Watson<br \/>\nExecutive Producer: Venetia Rainey <\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sign up to our most popular newsletter, From the Editor. Look forward to receiving free-thinking comment and the day&#8217;s biggest stories, every morning. telegraph.co.uk\/fromtheeditor<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba EMAIL US: Contact the team on battlelines@telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba GET THE LATEST HEADLINES: Find all our latest Iran coverage here: https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/iran-war\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump vs reality: why Iran refuses to capitulate On today\u2019s episode of Iran: The Latest, Roland Oliphant speaks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[59579,59577,14,38,3408,26,246,12831,31,338,339,68,910,27844,1505,59578,27,196,340,337,341,79,5479,43,12436,235],"class_list":["post-71998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-battle-lines","tag-decapitation-strike","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-iran-news-today","tag-iran-war","tag-middle-east-war","tag-naval-blockade","tag-news","tag-news-publisher","tag-newspaper","tag-oman","tag-putin","tag-roland-oliphant","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-shipping-attacks","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-telegraph","tag-the-telegraph","tag-uk-news","tag-ukraine","tag-us-iran-conflict","tag-us-military","tag-us-navy","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117038363594719132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71998","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=71998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}