{"id":80745,"date":"2026-08-21T17:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80745\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:04:53","slug":"trump-has-trapped-us-in-iran-war-as-world-stands-by-diplomats-damning-verdict-iran-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80745\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump has trapped US in Iran war as world stands by: diplomat\u2019s damning verdict | Iran latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Trump has trapped US in Iran war as world stands by: diplomat\u2019s damning verdict | Iran latest news\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GjR1TdpipZ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTrump has trapped US in Iran war as world stands by: diplomat\u2019s damning verdict | Iran latest news<br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u2018If there were a university delivering degrees in strategic malpractice, Donald Trump would without a doubt graduate summa cum laude.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>On today\u2019s episode of Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant gets a damning assessment of the US-Iran war from one of America\u2019s most seasoned Middle East diplomats, Aaron David Miller. A former State Department analyst and negotiator across six Republican and Democratic administrations and now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Miller delivers a blunt verdict on Washington\u2019s strategic failures. <\/p>\n<p>As the Middle East conflict hits the six-month mark and the Strait of Hormuz remains officially closed, he explains why he can see no clear exit options for Trump. Despite Washington unleashing an &#8220;economic D-Day&#8221; and the &#8220;toughest sanctions in history,&#8221; Tehran shows no sign of backing down. <\/p>\n<p>Plus, why Secretary of State Marco Rubio is MIA and how a \u201cserious retrenchment\u201d of US forces in the Gulf is likely, amid news that some bases may not be fully rebuilt after the war. <\/p>\n<p>Highlights<br \/>\n\u2018Trump would graduate summa cum laude in strategic malpractice&#8217;<br \/>\nVeteran US diplomat Aaron David Miller on the US-Iran war <\/p>\n<p>CONTRIBUTORS:<br \/>\nRoland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant<br \/>\nAaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace @aarondmiller2<\/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>Video Producer: Max Bower<br \/>\nAudio Producer: David Dargahi<br \/>\nResearcher and Social Producer: Natalia Makohon<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<br \/>\n\u25ba EMAIL US: Contact the team on battlelines@telegraph.co.uk<br \/>\n\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 has trapped US in Iran war as world stands by: diplomat\u2019s damning verdict | Iran latest news&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[16582,65927,14,9493,3634,15470,26,2325,6382,66,709,6160,27844,13170,27,196,337,518,257,43],"class_list":["post-80745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-aaron-david-miller","tag-carnegie-endowment","tag-donald-trump","tag-gulf-security","tag-iran-sanctions","tag-iran-the-latest","tag-iran-war","tag-jd-vance","tag-marco-rubio","tag-masoud-pezeshkian","tag-middle-east-conflict","tag-middle-east-geopolitics","tag-roland-oliphant","tag-scott-bessent","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-the-telegraph","tag-us-foreign-policy","tag-us-iran-war","tag-us-military"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117134595408043712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80745","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=80745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}