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outcome selections only. T's and Clusions apply. 18 plus scummelware. Dotter It's Thursday, the 26th of March. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker,

your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. First up, earlier this week,

President Trump announced a mysterious

present from Iran, and now we're learning what it actually was, spoiler alert, not a pony.

I'll bring you the details. Later in the show, Britain authorizes the seizure of Russian-linked

tankers, escalating the fight against Moscow's shadow fleet. But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

Earlier this week, President Trump told reporters that Iran had given the U.S. a, quote,

present, a gift, something he described as amazing and worth a tremendous amount of money,

hinting that it was tied to oil in the Strait of Hormuz.

Now, that mystery has been solved, and it turns out, well, it wasn't quite the breakthrough it was made out to be.

According to U.S. and regional officials, what Trump was referring to was Iran, allowing

a limited number of fuel tankers to pass safely through the Strait of Hormuz in recent

days, a move intended

to signal some willingness to de-escalate as back-channel messages began flowing between the two

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