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Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkoff, one of your hosts. The other hosts are Riley Fessler and Minna Stein, but you know that. Otherwise, you wouldn't be here. And you want to hear from them, not from me. So, Minna?

Missile strikes intensified across the Middle East as Iran and its allies targeted U.S. partners,

while the U.S. Department of Defense expanded operations and regional tensions deepened with no clear diplomatic breakthrough.

Donald Trump said he is open to a deal, but also floated aggressive options, including seizing Iranian oil infrastructure

and nuclear materials, even as Iran rejected U.S. reposals and demanded reparations.

The conflict has disrupted global energy markets, especially around the Strait of Hormuz,

raising fears of a prolonged war with major economic

and geopolitical consequences. Raising fears of a prolonged war? Okay, we're four weeks into this.

So it's prolonging. It's prolonging. And there are major geopolitical consequences. Have you been to the gas station recently? Have you seen what's going on with the price of oil, which is high? But now here in Washington, all the people around the president are going, hey, you know, it might hit $200 a barrel. How would it do that? Well, if he follows through on any of these advanced military options.

They're apparently moving 10,000 troops more into the region because they've got some of these

plans, take Carg Island or, and this is really the one that takes the cake in terms of lunacy,

go in and get the fissile material that they have in Iran, which is

buried deep underground, which is in the middle of a big city, a lot of it. At least that was the

thought that we had, and which would be an incredibly, incredibly dangerous operation in which

lots of people would likely get killed. And a lot of the nuclear material

when it's transported is transported in the form of a gas and certain kinds of canisters.

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