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American Prestige

News - Iran Ceasefire Amid Blockade Standoff, Japan Arms Exports Expand, CIA Operatives Die in Mexico

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

News, History, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our episodes. Danny and Derek will livestream from Route 3 as they take to the World Cup on foot. This week’s news: in Iran, Trump extends the ceasefire after talks fail (1:02), Iran reimposes its Strait of Hormuz blockade (6:05), the Islamic Republic’s leadership rejects unilateral concessions (9:11), and Persian Gulf mines and oil spills threaten commerce (13:13); the UAE seeks a currency swap after the Iran war’s economic shocks (16:28); Israel violates the Lebanon ceasefire amid extension talks (18:11) while the IDF punishes soldiers over crucifix desecration (21:00); Gaza’s reconstruction costs cause problems, plus governance delays (24:13); the U.S. offers to send Afghan refugees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (26:33); Japan lifts its lethal arms export ban (28:59); the Sudanese army retakes Moja from the RSF (30:22); the TPLF reasserts control over the Tigray government (32:55); Ukraine reopens the Druzhba pipeline for an EU loan (34:51); CIA deaths expose the United States’ role in Mexico drug raids (37:55); and boat strike survivors allege mistreatment in U.S. custody (40:59). Be sure to subscribe to our newest miniseries, Marx Prestige. And check out our series on Christian Zionism with Daniel Hummel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:36.2

Let's find the conversation to your soul.

0:40.3

Hello, Prestige headsads and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davison, and we are excited to bring you the news.

1:07.1

Derek, before we begin some very quick housekeeping, everyone please check out Mark's Prestige.

1:12.3

We're releasing new episodes every Tuesday.

1:14.4

You could find out how to subscribe if you are not an annual subscriber at Mark's Prestigepod.com,

1:20.7

but if you are an annual subscriber, you get access to that series for free.

1:24.6

So if you are not yet an annual subscriber, please consider becoming one. Also,

1:28.6

everyone check out the Discord over at AmericanPreciedgedpod.com. There's a Discord link,

1:32.8

and please remember to rate and review us on Apple. It does help the show. Derek, all right,

1:37.7

let's jump into it. And of course, let's start with Iran. Trump has extended the ceasefire

1:43.5

after talks break down. You are truly Nostraderic over here.

1:47.0

This is exactly what you predicted. So tell us the future, Nostraderic. Is it? Is this what I

1:53.2

predict? Yeah, this is what you predicted. Yeah. I mean, I was lost all day on Friday.

1:57.9

Like there was this whole bizarre back and forth where the Iranians,

2:04.0

the Iranian foreign minister Abbas Ararachi declared that the Strait of Hormuz was open again,

2:10.5

and then that got qualified a couple of times by Iranian other Iranian officials. But this was after the announcement that there was going to be a ceasefire in Lebanon.

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