Welcome to Bombshell.

I'm Erin Simpson.

I'm Lorny Young-Soulman.

And I'm Roda I,

and we're again on a distributed edition,

even though I am back in D.C. for the weekend. And I think maybe I am

drinking some of the rosé that Lauren brought me yesterday. So thanks to Lauren for that.

But we are all in our separate abodes with separate recording rigs, which is always an adventure

for us. Ladies, what are you drinking? I'm just having coffee, like a whole

lot of coffee after having apparently reformatted multiple SE cards and shocked myself on electrical

equipment this morning. So it's going great. Everything great. Everything's great. I'm having

delicious Clementine flavored organic Italian soda, so I'm trying to balance the

needs of drinking something bubbly and getting vitamin C.

And I'm going to tell myself that Clementine-flavored soda has lots of vitamin C.

Go with me, guys.

Yeah, I think it certainly does.

I can't imagine a single better source for vitamin C,

except maybe this rosé that I'm drinking. That's probably right. That's right. I'm sure it has

last. Outstanding. Well, we have a lot to cover this week, but I think first and foremost,

in my mind, has been drama surrounding Iran. And so we decided we would take

kind of an extended tour through Iranian tensions and ongoing issues with a special guest.

Please welcome Ariane Tabat Dubai, who's an associate political scientist at Rand. Hi, Ari. How are you

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