Iran’s Trump ‘assassination plot’ revealed & America’s ‘protection racket’
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The episode discusses Iran's alleged assassination plot against Donald Trump, the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, and insights from the recent Nato summit.
The burst of strikes between Iran and the US has died down but the Strait of Hormuz has seized up, with shipping coming to an almost complete standstill on the southern non-Iranian route. On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey and Roland Oliphant discuss how this is exactly what Tehran wants. Meanwhile, Israel has revealed that Donald Trump is the subject of a “new and specific” assassination plot by Iran, and Ali Khamenei has finally been buried - with his son Mojtaba Khamenei still nowhere to be seen. Plus, what does this week’s Nato summit in Ankara, Turkey tell us about the future of the alliance and the trans-Atlantic security relationship? Rachel Ellehuus, director-general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), gives her analysis of Trump’s Greenland comments, how Ukraine was the real winner, and why America's aggressive global force posture review is a "protection racket". Highlights Iran’s Trump ‘assassination plot’ revealed as Strait of Hormuz closes up RUSI chief Rachel Ellehuus on Trump, the Nato summit and Greenland CONTRIBUTORS: Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief…
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