Peter Hartcher answers your questions about Iran, Trump and the state of the world

About this episode

Peter Hartcher answers listener questions about Iran, Trump, and the current state of the world.

Regular listeners will know Peter Hartcher – he’s our international and political editor and a weekly voice on The Morning Edition , helping us dissect and process the extraordinary times that we’re living in. Every week we get a lot of comments from our listeners, so we put a call out for the burning questions you’ve wanted to ask Hartcher. Today we've collated a selection of them for this special episode.   Background reading Peter Hartcher's latest column – Trump says he’s won the war. No one has told the Iranians. Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Guest: Peter Hartcher

Topics covered

• Iran
• Trump
• politics
• international relations
• listener questions
• current events

Keywords

• Iran
• Trump
• politics
• international editor
• listener questions
• current events

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Age, Sydney Morning Herald

Places: Iran

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