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All righty. So we begin today, not with segregationist senators or reparations. We begin today

with the breaking news that Iran yesterday shot down a U.S. drone, according to the New York Times,

escalating tensions. Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance drone early on Thursday, according to both

nations. The nations differed on the crucial issue of whether the aircraft had violated

Iranian airspace in the latest escalation

intentions that have raised fears of war between the two countries. I do love, again, the sort of

cycle of violence language that is used by the New York Times. It's just the latest escalation

intentions, generalized tensions out there in the universe that have raised fear of war.

Actually, it's just that Iran keeps bombing things and like shooting things down. The United States has taken no aggressive military action

against Iran, as in none, going all the way back to the Obama administration, when the Iranians

were taking prisoner American soldiers. Iranian officials said that the drone was over Iran.

The American military denied that. Each side accused the other of being the aggressor. Obviously, we should take the Iranian contentions with all of the, all of the verifiable, I think, truth that they deserve. I think I think we should absolutely take Iran's contentions seriously because they never lie about these things, like wanting to develop nuclear weapons or bombing ships or anything, supporting terrorists.

They're perfectly honest. Obviously, we should take the contentions of the American government and the Iranian government with exactly the same amount of seriousness.

Both of the country said that the downing occurred at 405 Iranian time on Thursday, 735 p.m. on Wednesday in Washington, the drone was

shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile system while operating an international airspace over

the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Centcom. Again, the Strait of Hormuz is the geographic

region that is the source of a lot of this tension right now because the Iranians

are effectively seeking to bottleneck all oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz,

which is responsible for an enormous amount of the world oil market. They're hoping to

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