I'm Shalom, everyone, and welcome to the Middle East and Beyond.

I'm Barry Stagner, coming to you from a chilly and wet Southern California, joined as always with my dear friend and brother,

Amir Sarfati from the Jesrael Valley.

Shalom Amir, good to see you.

Shalom, Pastor Barry, good to see you.

We missed you last week, and I'm glad that everything is okay, and you're back with us.

Good to be back.

And, Amir, we've got the full schedule for today, so many things to talk about.

And, you know, I was thinking about with our first stories, you know, we've got 1.8 billion

Muslims in the world, 300 million are Shia, the other 1.5 billion are Sunni, and with a population

of some 82 million in Iran, we know the church has been growing strongly there. So, you know,

Iran accounts for a very, very small percentage of the Muslim population around the world,

and yet they seem to be in the driver's seat,

and this is clearly something that has prophetic implications.

Maybe you can bring us up to speed a little bit on what's happening with some of the so-called negotiations

and the U.S. involvement in Israel as well.

So what's happening there?

I think, yeah, I think I'll touch on that a little later.

What I wanted to start with is the quite interesting new global power struggle and new alliances

that we see that we haven't seen before.

And, of course, that is a direct result of

the situation with Iran. It's kind of interesting, Pastor Barry, that countries that felt safer

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