2026-04-08
26 分钟You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
We're recording this at 15 Hours GMT on Wednesday the 8th of April.
The US and Iran both say they're ready for further negotiations after agreeing a two-week ceasefire.
But has the world changed forever?
Iranians just realised, the IRGC realised, they have a more lethal weapon in their hand than nuclear weapon.
It is a strait of hormones.
Global oil prices have fallen and stock markets are up.
But Israel has carried out its heaviest strikes so far in its latest conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
We'll hear from Beirut, Washington and from inside Iran.
A total and complete victory for America or a crushing defeat?
The US and Iran have very different viewpoints on the significance of their two-week ceasefire.
President Trump agreed to hold off on his threat to wipe out an entire civilisation after Iran came up with a ten-point proposal
that he said could form the basis of a long-term solution.
Iran denied backing down and broadcast a triumphant statement.
Thank you.
To the honourable, great and heroic nation of Iran,
the enemy has suffered an undeniable, historic and crushing defeat in its cowardly,
illegal and criminal war against the Iranian nation.
Well, that was the Iranian view.