Newshour, Newshour, President Trump's foul-mouthed threat to Iran

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Newshour

President Trump's foul-mouthed threat to Iran

5 April 2026

43 minutes

Available for 6 days

Trump uses expletives to warn of attacks on Iranian infrastructure unless the Strait of Hormuz is opened to shipping. We hear from our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, and ask where this threatened escalation in the war leaves America's allies in the Gulf.

Also in the programme: Hungary and Serbia say they've foiled a plot to blow up a pipeline, but is it a 'false flag' operation ahead of the upcoming Hungarian election? And the American museum curator in her seventies who has become a social media star.

(Photo: President Donald Trump delivers address to the nation about the Iran war on 1 April 2026. Credit: Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS)


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