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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Trump Rages over Iran Setbacks as Leaks Reveal His Seething Obama Envy

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent · Jun 5, 2026 · 19:57

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This comes as The New York Times reports that extensive internal war games among military officials established that Iran would react to an attack by closing the Strait of Hormuz—which Trump ignored. And incredibly, officials just leaked to The Atlantic that Trump is privately “irritated” by commentary casting his emerging framework as weaker than Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal. Trump also wants a way to argue that Iran “accepted terms from him that Obama never managed to extract.” We talked to former National Security Council veteran Emily Horne, author of the Spin Class Substack. We discuss how all those leaks themselves signal Trump’s growing weakness, why his demand for a “better” deal than Obama’s may be hopeless, and whether that leaves us any way out of this fiasco.

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