{"id":254795,"date":"2025-06-20T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-trumps-iran-decision-is-splitting-the-republican-party-bbc-americast\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T21:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:04:47","slug":"why-trumps-iran-decision-is-splitting-the-republican-party-bbc-americast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/why-trumps-iran-decision-is-splitting-the-republican-party-bbc-americast\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump\u2019s Iran decision is splitting the Republican Party | BBC Americast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/bTME7W0cIEQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Why Trump\u2019s Iran decision is splitting the Republican Party | BBC Americast\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bTME7W0cIEQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>As the world waits for Donald Trump\u2019s decison on whether to join Israel in striking Iran\u2019s nuclear sites, he is quickly losing support from his own party. Donald Trump has generally enjoyed party unity since returning to office in January but now faces an open revolt over the possibility of US strikes against Iran. <\/p>\n<p>Some of Trump\u2019s biggest supporters, including the Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, have publicly come out against the prospect of war with Iran. Why are some of his MAGA supporters against military involvement, and does it fit with the \u2018America First\u2019 agenda? <\/p>\n<p>Sarah, Justin and Anthony discuss how the legacy of America\u2019s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan loom over the current situation with Iran, and whether Donald Trump even needs the support of his party to join the Israel-Iran conflict. <\/p>\n<p>And Justin speaks to Elliott Abrams, who served as Special Representative for Iran from 2020 to 2021, during Donald Trump\u2019s first term. He was also an Assistant Secretary of State in the Reagan Administration. In 1992, Abrams was pardoned after he was convicted of misleading Congress about out the Iran-Contra affair, which involved the secret sale of arms to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>This episode was made by George Dabby with Alix Pickles and Julia Webster. The technical producer was Rohan Madison. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to be notified every time we publish a new episode, please subscribe to us on BBC Sounds by hitting the subscribe button on the app. You can now listen to Americast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say &quot;Ask BBC Sounds to play Americast\u201d. It works on most smart speakers.<\/p>\n<p>US Election Unspun: Sign up for Anthony\u2019s BBC newsletter: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-68093155<\/p>\n<p>Americast is part of the BBC News Podcasts family of podcasts. The team that makes Americast also makes lots of other podcasts, including Radical, Newscast and Ukrainecast. If you enjoy Americast (and if you&#8217;re reading this then you hopefully do), then we think that you will enjoy some of our other pods too. See links below.<\/p>\n<p>Newscast: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/series\/p05299nl Ukrainecast: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/brand\/p0bqztzm Radical: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/brand\/p0gg4k6r<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world waits for Donald Trump\u2019s decison on whether to join Israel in striking Iran\u2019s nuclear sites, he is quickly losing support from his own party. Donald Trump has generally enjoyed party unity since returning to office in January but now faces an open revolt over the possibility of US strikes against Iran. 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