{"id":83549,"date":"2026-08-27T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/83549\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:42:08","slug":"trumps-iran-gamble-will-it-backfire-the-global-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/83549\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Iran gamble: Will it backfire? | The Global Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Trump\u2019s Iran gamble: Will it backfire? | The Global Story\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R_BI7BX_Rxk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s Iran gamble: Will it backfire? | The Global Story<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThere have been a lot of sanctions programmes against Iran. But this week US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Operation Economic Outcast, which promises to go further than ever before. <\/p>\n<p>It will punish not just Iran but any country helping Iran &#8211; including China.  It is the Trump administration\u2019s latest attempt to end the war. Will it work?   <\/p>\n<p>We speak to Vali Nasr, \u200aprofessor of international affairs and Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University, and ask whether in trying to end one war, President Trump risks starting a global trade conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Iran #US #BBCNews <\/p>\n<p>00:00 President Trump\u2019s plan for Iran<br \/>\n01:42 What are the new US economic sanctions?<br \/>\n03:00 What is an economic sanction?<br \/>\n07:10 The history of US sanctions against Iran<br \/>\n10:20 How are the sanctions affecting Iranians?<br \/>\n14:12 How will China respond to the sanctions?<br \/>\n18:00 How could China retaliate?<br \/>\n20:27 What is the worst case scenario?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Iran gamble: Will it backfire? | The Global Story There have been a lot of sanctions programmes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[176,234,236,38,31,11681,48,235],"class_list":["post-83549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bbc-news","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-iran","tag-news","tag-sanctions","tag-trump","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117167818564398592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83549","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=83549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}