Hello, dear listeners.

Conflicted is back. We're one day late, but Amon, you know, I don't think anyone can really

blame us, given the total. Well, you know, I want to call it a cluster duck. I also want to

call it a cluster Donald duck that the world and certainly the region witnessed over the last four or five days.

Holy moly, up and down all the way around.

How are you feeling it must have been just, well, I guess, thrilling, nail-biting, frustrating.

As the narrative switched back and forth, how have you been keeping?

Well, what can I tell you, Thomas?

I mean, it's been a roller coaster of the past 48 hours.

Are we going to see an Armageddon in Iran?

Are we going to see a retreat, another extension, deadlines, the know, the Strait of Hermes, is it going

to be open or not? Will the Iranians capitulate? Will there be a ceasefire or a permanent

end to the conflict? Are the Pakistanis the right sort of mediators? Will the ceasefire cover

Lebanon, you know, or is it just only Iran? I mean, it was. And then when

the announcement came, oh my God, so yeah, you can imagine. Well, dear listeners, you know, I have to remind

you that unlike a lot of people commenting on this war, you know, Aman is not a professional

pundit. He is a professional geopolitical and intelligence analyst and consultant.

And so, you know, the fact that he gives us so much of his time fits us in to what is an

incredibly busy schedule. I woke up the other day to the news of the ceasefire. And we were

meant to record that morning. And so I texted him, uh, Amen, I suppose the events of the last night might delay things a bit. And, you know, I can't

reveal. And you didn't tell me the whole truth, but I was aware that you replied from a very

high-level meeting with very high-level decision makers in the region. In real time, I imagine,

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