From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle.

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening.

And welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take.

I'm your host today, senior editor, Will Kayback.

I'm going to be taking the full podcast again today, so hopefully no one is getting too tired of the sound of my voice.

I hope not.

But we do have a good one for you today.

We're going to be talking about the latest in Iran.

Back in January, we covered the protests that broke out across Iran in response to the serious economic challenges the country was facing and dissatisfaction with the government. Since then, those protests have been brutally cracked down on

by the regime, and the U.S. has also engaged in negotiations with Iranian officials about its nuclear

program. At the same time, President Trump has heightened threats

to potentially strike Iran or carry out some kind of a military operation against the country.

So we're going to be getting into all of that today, providing an update on everything that's

happened since we last covered the issue, and then offering a little bit of guidance about what

could come next. Before we dive in, I want to share a preview of the Friday edition that we've got coming

tomorrow.

Back in the summer of 2024, before the presidential election, we wrote a big Friday edition

about Project 2025 and our thoughts on how that initiative might match up to a potential

Trump administration's agenda.

So now that Trump has obviously won the election and has been in office for over a year,

we're going to look back on our coverage of Project 2025, see how much of its contributors

are involved with the current administration and see how our coverage and Isaac's take

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