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Real fragment from BBC News: a news report on Trump–Iran negotiations, two speakers in this excerpt, English. The bot transcribed it and translated it into Spanish — ready-made subtitles for a localized version.
[Speaker 1]
[00:00][upbeat music] President Trump has again threatened Iran, demanding Tehran act quickly to agree a peace deal amid stalled negotiations. Writing on social media, Donald Trump said the clock was ticking and the Iranians, uh, should move fast or nothing will be left of them. Time is of the essence. Well, the message came as the president was due to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday.
[00:32]Iranian media meanwhile reported the US has failed to make any concrete concessions in its response to Tehran's latest proposal to end the conflict. Our North America correspondent Joel Gunter has more.
[Speaker 2]
[00:45]There is a sense that negotiations between Iran and America are now very much at a standstill. The two sides have been passing these memos essentially back and forth, trying to find some common ground for negotiations, but making seemingly no progress. President Trump said that he had ripped up the latest Iranian offer after reading just one line. And Iranian state media reported today that the latest US offer had contained no serious concessions.
[01:18]Now we have this threat from President Trump to wipe out Iran. It echoes that terrible threat he made last month to wipe out the country's entire civilization. Now, there are reports that both the US and Israel are preparing new attack plans, and we saw this morning, uh, a drone strike at a nuclear facility in the UAE. No radiation risk apparently, and no one blamed, but certainly contributing to a sense of rising tensions.
[01:51]Now, President Trump has made these kind of threats before, of course, and then backed down, but it reflects a really serious and apparently growing frustration that he has been unable to extricate himself from this unfinished and unpopular war with anything he can really sell back home, uh, as a win. And, uh, there is also no sense at the moment that the economic hardship for ordinary Americans is going away.
[Hablante 1]
[00:00][música animada] El presidente Trump ha vuelto a amenazar a Irán, exigiendo que Teherán actúe rápido para acordar un acuerdo de paz en medio de unas negociaciones estancadas. En redes sociales, Donald Trump dijo que el reloj corría y que los iraníes, eh, debían moverse rápido o no quedaría nada de ellos. El tiempo es esencial. Bueno, el mensaje llegó cuando el presidente iba a hablar el domingo con el primer ministro israelí Benjamin Netanyahu.
[00:32]Los medios iraníes, por su parte, informaron que Estados Unidos no ha hecho ninguna concesión concreta en su respuesta a la última propuesta de Teherán para poner fin al conflicto. Nuestro corresponsal en Norteamérica, Joel Gunter, nos cuenta más.
[Hablante 2]
[00:45]Existe la sensación de que las negociaciones entre Irán y Estados Unidos están ahora muy estancadas. Ambas partes se han estado pasando estos memorandos esencialmente de un lado a otro, intentando encontrar puntos en común para las negociaciones, pero sin progresos aparentes. El presidente Trump dijo que rompió la última oferta iraní después de leer una sola línea. Y los medios estatales iraníes informaron hoy que la última oferta estadounidense no contenía concesiones serias.
[01:18]Ahora tenemos esta amenaza del presidente Trump de arrasar con Irán. Hace eco de aquella terrible amenaza que hizo el mes pasado de borrar a la civilización entera del país. Ahora hay informes de que tanto Estados Unidos como Israel están preparando nuevos planes de ataque, y vimos esta mañana, eh, un ataque con dron contra una instalación nuclear en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos. No hay riesgo de radiación al parecer, y nadie se atribuyó el ataque, pero ciertamente contribuye a la sensación de tensiones crecientes.
[01:51]Por supuesto, el presidente Trump ya ha hecho este tipo de amenazas antes y después se ha echado atrás, pero refleja una frustración realmente seria y aparentemente creciente, porque no ha podido salir de esta guerra inconclusa e impopular con nada que pueda realmente vender en casa, eh, como una victoria. Y, eh, tampoco hay en este momento la sensación de que la dificultad económica para los estadounidenses comunes esté desapareciendo.
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