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Hi again, everybody. It's 5 o'clock in New York. They warned us, and here we are, just three hours away from Trump's deadline for Iran to open the Strait of her moves, or, quote, a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again, end quote. And while Pakistani officials are proposing a two-week delay to that deadline, Donald Trump's

existential threat to Iran is already putting the U.S. military in the unprecedented position of

either obeying the commander-in-chief as he publicly vows to commit what would amount to war crimes

against the civilian population or engage in a widespread act

of defiance of illegal orders. While Trump's threats might have been intended to force the

Iranians to come to the table and make a deal, it so far appears to have had the opposite effect.

As the U.S. and Israel bombed rows and bridges throughout the day in Iran in an effort to force Iran to open the straight, the New York Times reports this, quote, Iranians formed human chains.

Along bridges and around power plants around the country, videos and photographs posted by state and local media showed, in effect daring the United States and Israel to kill civilians in order

to hit those sites.

It was unclear whether the gatherings were arranged by the government, which has organized

rallies in its support throughout the war.

In the last half hour, Donald Trump called those human chains, quote, totally illegal

and said, quote, they're not allowed to do that.

And as Trump's attempts to bring the Iranians to the negotiating table by force fail, experts

are warning that the leadership of the U.S. military could be facing legal jeopardy.

One of those experts telling

the Washington Post this, quote, I'm concerned that the president's bombast is putting the operational

commanders in a very difficult position. That's according to Jeffrey Korn, who served as a top

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