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Everything is getting more expensive, rent, groceries, insurance.

And because California's excessive ride share insurance laws attract litigation

abused by billboard lawyers, costs are going up for everyone.

Bogus claims and inflated settlements drive up state-required insurance costs, which make

up nearly a third of your Uber ride fare.

Join our fight to protect your access to affordable rides. Go to uber.com for slash fair

dash insurance to learn more. From Kikudi in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

War is expanding in the Middle East and the United States is now directly involved.

The American military launched a series of strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities,

entering a war that Israel began

less than two weeks ago. Today we talk with members of the Iranian diaspora, the people in our

community who are closest to the conflict. How do they understand what's going on? What are their

fears? What are their hopes? We'll talk to them about how they see this war, what they're hearing from family back home, and more.

It's all coming up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

While many Americans were shocked in trying to process a war that's unfolding in the Middle East again, the Iranian diaspora here in the Bay Area and across the country

are an especially difficult situation. Many of them have family at home in Iran, family that's

subject to another travel ban, not unlike the quote-unquote Muslim travel ban of the first

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