About this episode

The episode discusses the ongoing Iran war and President Trump's repeated claims that it will soon come to an end, amidst a lack of visible solutions.

Donald Trump again says the Iran war will be over "soon". The US president has said this in some way, shape or form a number of times in recent days. Yet there's still no solution on the horizon in the Middle East. On March 9, Trump said the war was "very complete, pretty much". On March 24, he reportedly said the US and Israel had "won" the war. On April 14, in a Fox Business interview, Trump said the war was "very close to being over." On April 16, CBS reported Trump again saying the conflict was "very close to over." On May 1, in a letter to Congress, the US president declared the hostilities had "terminated." On May 7, Trump said there was a "very good chance" the war was nearing an end and spoke optimistically about peace negotiations. This Thursday, there is word of a 14-point memorandum being under consideration by Tehran. Key in the demands being made by Washington is a moratorium on Iran 's enrichment of uranium . In return, there would be a lifting of sanctions against Iran and an unfreezing of assets. Is there any chance of a breakthrough? Produced by Mark Owen, Antonia Cimini, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.

Topics covered

• Iran conflict
• US foreign policy
• Middle East tensions
• Trump administration
• peace negotiations

Keywords

• Iran
• Donald Trump
• war
• peace negotiations
• Middle East
• sanctions
• uranium enrichment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fox Business, CBS

Places: Iran, United States, Israel

More episodes of The Debate

• Starmer's last stand? The UK local elections · May 6, 2026 · 41 min
• How unbreakable is Iran's regime? Tehran defiant despite deepening hardship for citizens · May 6, 2026 · 43 min

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The Debate podcast page.