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IrelandTrump claims Hormuz control as BBC examines Iran's nuclear debate
The bulletin follows the president's rejection of a deal with reporting on UK spying convictions and Iranian calls to reconsider a nuclear treaty.
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- 0:57Trump's post rejects an Iran deal, claims control of the strait and redirects Vance towards domestic crime.
- 1:43Debusmann says Vance has linked Republican midterm losses to the war.
- 3:47Two men are convicted of spying for Iran; Sandford explains surveillance targeting journalists and legal figures.
- 6:13Pezeshkian tells COP31 that US-Israeli strikes have caused lasting environmental damage.
- 7:42Iran's Assembly of Experts backs calls to review and potentially leave the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
- 9:44Iran rejects claims that threats from Tehran forced Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to relocate.
Donald Trump says a deal to end the Iran war is no longer necessary. In the social-media post shown by BBC News, he claims the US already controls Iran's money and the Strait of Hormuz, while directing Vice-President JD Vance to concentrate on crime in Democratic cities instead.
Maryam Moshiri's edition of The Iran War Today places that declaration alongside developments in Britain and Iran. The new upload drew about 400,000 views in its first thirteen hours.
North America correspondent Bernd Debusmann examines the political distance between Trump and Vance following Republican midterm losses. He says Vance has specifically identified the war as a reason for those defeats. Trump's declaration is presented as his position, not as confirmation that the conflict has ended or that control of the strait is settled.
The bulletin then turns to Woolwich Crown Court, where Mostafa Sepahvand and Farhad Javadi Manesh were convicted of spying for Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Correspondent Daniel Sandford explains the surveillance operation targeting Iran International journalists and legal figures in London.
From Iran, the programme brings two distinct messages. At COP31 in Turkey, President Masoud Pezeshkian blames US-Israeli strikes for environmental destruction. Meanwhile, the BBC reports that Iran's Assembly of Experts has backed calls to review, and potentially withdraw from, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
BBC Persian journalist Parham Ghobadi explains that calls for nuclear weapons as an ultimate deterrent are becoming more prominent inside Iran. That is a debate over a possible change, not an announcement that Iran has left the treaty. The programme closes by examining Iran's rejection of claims that Iranian threats forced US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to relocate.
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