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Forbes Breaking News' recording pairs the president's optimism with a firm nuclear demand and claims that military pressure is working.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 327,673 views a day, 46 times a normal first day on this channel (7,121).
BREAKING NEWS: President Trump Holds Surprise Press Briefing And Says Iran War Likely Ending Soon
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- 0:20Trump describes his conversation with Qatar's prime minister about Iran and Middle East security.
- 0:50He outlines the blockade and Operation Iron Gate as continuing restrictions on Iran.
- 1:25Trump says preventing Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon is non-negotiable.
- 2:37He says record oil shipments are passing through the Strait of Hormuz while Iran remains restricted.
- 3:32Trump contrasts the campaign with prolonged conflicts in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Korea.
- 5:00He describes Iran's military infrastructure as devastated and its economy as under severe pressure.
President Donald Trump describes a conversation with Qatar's prime minister before laying out his position on Iran: continued restrictions, military readiness and no possibility of accepting an Iranian nuclear weapon.
The surprise White House briefing, posted by Forbes Breaking News, drew about 130,000 views in six hours, far beyond the channel's usual start for a regular video. The channel's description highlights Trump's assessment that there is a good chance the war could end soon.
At the podium, however, his most explicit condition concerns what Iran must not possess. "Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and that's a non-negotiable point," he says.
Trump describes an ongoing blockade and an operation he calls Iron Gate. He also says record quantities of oil are moving through the Strait of Hormuz while Iran remains restricted. Later, he portrays Iran's navy, air force and military manufacturing facilities as devastated. These are the president's accounts of the campaign and its effects, rather than an announcement of an agreed settlement.
The briefing sits alongside unusually fast-starting Forbes uploads about the effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Those include Hakeem Jeffries' press briefing after the articles were introduced and Marco Rubio's defense of Hegseth. Together, the recordings put Trump's account of the military campaign beside the growing congressional pressure on his defense secretary.
A country on a peninsula in the Persian Gulf, with its only land border adjoining Saudi Arabia. Its capital is Doha.
More on Wikipedia ›A waterway linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, with Iran on its northern shore and Oman's Musandam Peninsula to the south.
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- Channel
- Forbes Breaking News
- Subscribers
- 5,630,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 33,223,852
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,589,056 (on a normal day: 3,571,194)
- Video published
- November 9, 2026
- Video views so far
- 130,029 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 327,673
The numbers
The Trump briefing drew an unusually large early audience for Forbes Breaking News. Its views so far are shown alongside the channel's usual first-day performance.
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Trump discusses maritime transit and oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.