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Thank you. It's Wednesday, 5 February.

Welcome to the BDB afternoon bulletin.

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

All right, let's get briefed.

First, we'll look at a press conference from President Donald Trump, where he warned Iran that he's left instructions for their total obliteration if they move to assassinate him.

He later walked back his aggressive rhetoric and said he's eager to strike a new nuclear deal

with the Mullas. That'll keep the regime guessing.

Then, the White House is moving to shake up the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency,

offering buyouts that would provide full pay and benefits for eight months to employees

in exchange for their resignations. But first, our afternoon spotlight, President Trump has

offered competing visions, to say the least, for future relations with Iran, issuing fresh

military threats against the regime, while also saying that he's eager to negotiate a new

nuclear deal. As we discussed on this morning's PDB, Trump issued an executive order Tuesday, reinstating his maximum pressure strategy against Iran,

which aims to prevent the Mullahs from obtaining a nuclear weapon and aims to cripple their oil exports through aggressive sanctions.

During the signing ceremony for the executive order,

Trump also sent a shot across the bow,

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