2026-03-25
27 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Blau.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
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But first.
When it comes to talking up military and diplomatic successes,
President Donald Trump unfailingly says that things are going just great.
He claims to be in talks with the right people in Iran.
He says the country is talking sense, that they want to make a deal with him so badly.
To top it off, somehow there's a mysterious gift involved.
They did something yesterday that was amazing actually.
They gave us a present and the present arrived today
and it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money.