Good morning and welcome to the Daily Article podcast from Denison Forum.

It's Thursday, May 28, 26.

This is a test of an automated reading of today's daily article authored by Dr. Jim Denison.

Today's article is titled Hormuz Deal Hanks in balance as Iran targets U.S. airbase.

Iran said this morning that it had targeted a U.S. airbase in response to recent U.S. military

attacks. According to Forbes, a deal over the strarait of Hormuz now hangs in the balance.

The U.S. shot down four Iranian drones and struck a ground control station near the

Strait of Hormuz that its military assessed as presenting a direct threat to American forces

and commercial shipping. Iran's announcement today

came as U.S. ally Kuwait reported its air defenses were responding to hostile missile and drone threats.

Hours earlier, President Trump signaled that an agreement between the two sides wasn't close.

The global oil benchmark soared above $98 per barrel early this morning

after reports of the attacks emerged. When Americans were captured at the U.S. Embassy in

Tehran in 1979, ABC News covered the ongoing crisis under the title, America held hostage. It seems we have been held hostage to

Iran ever since. Our country is six times larger than theirs. Our population is nearly four times

larger. Our economy is over 60 times larger than theirs. They are some 6,000 miles from us.

And yet, for my entire adult life, Iran has been in our headlines,

nearly always for nefarious reasons.

Why can't the West solve this problem in a permanent way?

In foreign policy, Middle East journalist and researcher

Ali Hashem writes, The world keeps asking Iran the wrong question. He notes that Iran is best

understood not in light of its 1979 Islamic revolution, but in terms of its enduring geopolitical

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