2026-08-11
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This is no secret, but President Trump is obsessed with his personal legacy.
Today on the pod, we'll explore how that colors his entire decision making, including on the war in Iran,
where the president's thinking seems to have shifted again just in the past week.
It is the NPR Politics Podcast.
I'm Myles Parks.
I cover voting.
I'm Franco Ordonez.
I cover the White House.
And I'm Tamara Keith, senior political correspondent.
And Franco, let's start with the conflict with Iran.
It feels like for weeks, for months now,
we've been talking about being close to some sort of agreement that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
It is still closed.
And over the weekend, there was reporting that indicated that Iran's list of demands for reopening
it included some pretty harsh conditions in the United States, things like paying war reparations, for instance.