It's Friday, the end of the end of course of daily brief.

It's Friday, the 10th of July.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right. Let's get briefed. First up,

even as strikes between the U.S. and Iran continue, a new power structure is quietly emerging

within the Iranian regime. We'll examine who is really calling the shots in Tehran.

Later in the show, we're getting new insight into President Trump's decision to abandon the Iran ceasefire.

We'll break down the intelligence that convinced the White House that the regime could no longer be trusted.

I'm sorry, was there someone in the White House who thought the regime could be trusted?

It's not an epiphany to realize that the brutal, repressive Iranian regime can't be trusted.

Sorry if I'm beating that dead horse.

Plus, Mexico was investigating whether the FBI played a secret role in the capture of one of the world's most notorious drug lords.

And in today's back of the brief, one of the biggest stories to emerge from the NATO summit wasn't a policy announcement.

It was the souvenirs.

I'll explain while world leaders are flying home with engraved weapons.

But first, today's PDB spotlight.

Throughout the war, we suggested that one of the conflict's lasting consequences would be a fundamental shift inside the Islamic Republic, specifically that the death of Ayatollah Ali Khomeini would leave the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of the IRGC as the country's true center of gravity. New reporting from the Financial Times suggests that this prediction is proving

correct. Hamidi was buried yesterday in the holy city of Mashad, his birthplace, bringing an end to a

nearly 37-year era in which he served as the central figure in Iran's political system. And it's hard

to overstate how much of that system revolved

around the deceased leader. How many was not just a country's supreme leader. He was the

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