Welcome everybody to Crystal Kail and Friends today on the show to talk about the Iran war.

We have Murtaza Hussein. He covers national security and foreign affairs for drop site news.

And I know, it's always great to see you, Maz.

Hey, guys. Good to see you, Maz. Hey, guys.

Good to see both.

Yeah.

Just right off the top.

The reporting you guys have done at DropSite News is truly unparalleled.

It's like indispensable.

I mean, even down to the level of like the 10 points that the Iranian submitted, the rest of the news media didn't even pay attention that these have been out there for days, if not weeks. And so I just wanted to, you know, celebrate you guys in the incredible work that you've been doing, which has been so important for understanding what's going on. That's really kind. Thank you so much for reading it and paying attention, helping bringing more attention to it. Yeah, of course. So let's go ahead and talk about where we are right now. And just so people know, we're recording this at 1130 a.m. on Thursday, since this is very fast moving. Where we are right

now is we have this pause somewhat in hostilities, U.S. and Iran seemingly coming to some sort of a temporary

ceasefire, Israel immediately coming in and doing their best to blow that up by continuing

mass murders and massacres in Lebanon. So what is your sense of where things stand right now,

Mas?

Sure. So, you know, at the moment, as you mentioned, well, actually, let me back up.

You know, there was surprisingly earlier this week the announcement of a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and Israel after over a month of fighting.

And I was surprised. I think many of us were surprised because the ceasefire came right at the moment that Trump had set up this very grotesque and apocalyptic threat.

He's vowing to destroy every power plant and bridge inside Iran.

He said something about killing the civilization of Iran such that it would never rise again,

implying perhaps some people that a nuclear option was also being discussed or used of nuclear

weapons against Iran.

That was something that the White House actually had to deny that the speculation had risen

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