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The Mark Simone Show

Mark's 11am Monologue.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Inflation is hitting Iran hard as its economy struggles. In Maine, Senator John Fetterman is the only Democrat not backing Graham Plattner. Donald Trump just announced a $700 million investment in the coal industry. And Major League Baseball might be expanding, with talk of adding two new teams.

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0:00.0

Marksimo, live from the W-O-R Life Fact Studios.

0:07.2

Well, lots to get to this hour.

0:09.7

Iran, well, occasionally there's a shot fired here and there, but it's basically a ceasefire.

0:14.2

It is good for us.

0:15.9

I know people would like to get this over with, but the longer we go on this little ceasefire thing, the more we drain

0:22.7

their finances, Stradahormuz closed, although it's not really closed. It's pretty much closed,

0:29.8

but it looks like several hundred tankers have been slipping through here and there, even though

0:35.7

we have a blockade. There is a way to slip through.

0:39.0

There are some, you know, Iranian vessels and some linked with China and India kind of allowed to go through.

0:47.5

And some other vessels, there's all kinds of tracking stuff, you know, that a boat sends out, you know, like radar, like signals, you can

0:55.9

turn all that off, turn off all the transmission, and get to the other side of the straight,

1:00.7

the Oman side, and as close to that as you can get, you can kind of slip through.

1:06.0

Think about 500 vessels have sneaked through during the last month or two.

1:12.1

But still, there's no open shipping, and Iran can't move their tankers.

1:16.8

So it's basically just draining all of their resources.

1:20.8

It's thought that they only have a couple more weeks before they're totally out of cash.

1:25.3

Inflation is now something like 200% in Iran and population going without everything pretty

1:32.2

much.

1:33.0

So it's an absolute disaster.

1:34.8

At some point, the whole thing is they have to agree no more nuclear anything and they'll

1:40.7

have to turn in the nuclear material they have, which is mostly dust.

1:44.9

It's in the ground, but we can get it out. We know how to do that. We've got teams that can go

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