{"text":[[{"start":9.15,"text":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have no choice but to accept any deal the US negotiates with Iran, Donald Trump said, because the US president “calls the shots”."}],[{"start":19.65,"text":"“He won’t have any choice,” Trump told the FT in a telephone interview. “I call the shots. I call all the shots. He [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots.”"}],[{"start":29.349999999999998,"text":"Trump spoke shortly after Iran launched a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel in the most serious breach of the ceasefire that was struck in early April. "}],[{"start":39,"text":"The president separately told Fox News that he would instruct Netanyahu to refrain from taking retaliatory action against Iran — a position at odds with statements from the Israeli military. "}],[{"start":49.95,"text":"Trump said that Iran’s strikes had not changed his desire to conclude US-Iran negotiations. “It’s not going to have any impact on the deal,” he told the FT. "}],[{"start":59.5,"text":"“We’ll see how it ends up. But they [the missile strikes on Israel] were attacks that did not kick at all. It’s one of those things that’s been going for 3,000 years, or 47 years, depending on how you count.” "}],[{"start":72.35,"text":"In contrast, however, to his position since Vice-President JD Vance led the first negotiations with Iran in early April, Trump did not sound bullish that a deal with Iran was imminent. "}],[{"start":84.19999999999999,"text":"“I think the deal is going on,” he said. “We’ll see what happens.” "}],[{"start":88.04999999999998,"text":"He underlined that Iran’s attack on Sunday would not affect his calculus. “The deal may make it on its own merit, or not, but this will not have any effect on it.”"}],[{"start":98.19999999999999,"text":"Asked what would happen if any such deal failed “on its merits”, Trump said he would consider a commando raid on Iran. "}],[{"start":105.35,"text":"“It means [one of] two things,” he said. “Number one, it would mean that possibly we would go in and take care of the rest of the place that we didn’t take care of militarily. Or it would just mean that we would keep the blockade on Iran because the blockade has been probably more powerful than any attack that was ever made on that country.” "}],[{"start":126.14999999999999,"text":"Trump’s comments about Netanyahu follow the leak last week to Axios of a blistering call between the two leaders in which a US official described the president telling Netanyahu: “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”"}],[{"start":143.2,"text":"Trump confirmed that the call took place and did not dispute the way it was characterised."}],[{"start":148.54999999999998,"text":"Despite several US-brokered Israel-Lebanon ceasefires, including one that came into force last week, Trump has been unable to stop Israel from striking targets almost daily in Lebanon, including a strike earlier on Sunday on a Hizbollah stronghold in Beirut."}],[{"start":165.39999999999998,"text":"Iran’s attacks came in retaliation for that strike. Iran has said a permanent Israeli ceasefire is a precondition of any US-Iran deal. "}],[{"start":181.29999999999995,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1780879110_3673.mp3"}