Laura Kuenssberg
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This is something that he did start himself.
And let's remember day one when there was that pre-recorded Trump statement, I think from Mar-a-Lago, he was wearing a cap and he spoke about the start of this operation and he was talking about regime change as being the big thing.
the big aim.
He was talking about getting the Iranian people to rise up.
This is your chance.
You need to rise up in the streets.
You know, none of what he asked for or wanted to happen a few months ago seems to have come to pass.
OK, so it's my job to be the person who's whipping this along.
I don't know why.
I don't know why I'm assuming this role.
No, no.
But we wanted to just mark the news card for the possibility of a social media ban for under-16-year-olds.
Yes.
Which is coming.
and also with respect to Ian Russell, who's been on Newscast with us, that polls say that the public are in favour of these.
Many families listening, many parents listening, and older teenagers listening will be aware of the absolute tsunami of material that can go the way of under-16-year-olds.
And there are certainly ministers who concede that maybe it won't work.
And if you look at Australia, the sort of results are mixed.
A lot of young people have VPNs to get around the restrictions.
But there are ministers not too far from this policy area.