It's Tuesday, welcome to the end of the World's Day.

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

All right. Let's get briefed.

First up, new reporting reveals Iran's leadership is privately warning that fear is no longer

keeping the public in check and that even a limited U.S. strike could push the regime toward

a breaking point. I'll have the details. Later in the show, the White House announces a new trade deal

with India as President Trump moves to slash tariffs after New Delhi agrees to stop buying Russian oil.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight. Even as discussions of potential negotiations in Ankara

between Washington and Tehran gained momentum, a new report from

Reuters is offering rare insight into the psychology of Iran's leadership, caught between two

mounting pressure points, aggressive U.S. military regional deployments, and ongoing anger from its

own people at home. Well, to be fair, when you kill tens of thousands of protesters,

other people will get angry. And what's striking here is that this reporting isn't about new

weapons systems or the movements of American naval assets. It's about fear, or more accurately,

the loss of it. According to Reuters, senior Iranian officials have been privately warning Supreme

Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamini that the regime's traditional methods of control, deterrence through

fear and violence, made no longer be working. After last month's bloody crackdown on anti-government

protests, officials believe that public anger has reached a tipping point. In their

words, fear is no longer a reliable deterrent. That's a remarkable admission inside an authoritarian

system. Several current and former officials told Reuters that the leadership now worries that a

limited U.S. strike could act as an accelerant, pushing already enraged Iranians back

into the streets and combining internal unrest with external pressure in a way that the regime

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