Welcome everybody to Redacted. Great to see all of you. You got just Clayton today. Natalie is off. So thank you guys for dialing us up here as we try to unpack and understand where this war in Iran goes. But we might be missing the larger story once we get into little soundbites on CNN or Fox News or what the president says here and there and who's

responding to it. But what are the real pieces of this puzzle for Iran? Who are the real power

players, the moneyed interests that are really running things? Why is the insurance industry

saying they're not going to insure shipping through the Strait of Hormuz? By the way, they've never done that, ever. So why are they doing it now? Why is Lloyds of London saying we're not going to insure that? It's very strange, right? So what about this idea of the strategy of tension, keeping the Middle East in a permanent state of tension so all of these people can make trillions of dollars. That's what we're going to

unpack today on the show. We're very excited to have Colonel Roxanne Towner Watkins,

who've done incredible, she's done incredible research on Operation Gladiow, of course, and these

stay behind armies. And this idea of the strategy of tension, which is part of their strategy

to keep us in this perpetual state of chaos and idea of Iranian strategy of tension, which is part of their strategy to keep us in this perpetual

state of chaos and idea of Iranian sleeper cells in the U.S. and all of those pieces.

We're going to talk with her today.

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