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

All right. Let's get briefed.

First up, the stage appears set for a potential showdown with Iran. Uh-oh, as the U.S.

assembles its largest concentration of military power in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq,

or as we called it back then, an incursion. We'll speak with former naval intelligence commander

Paul Shebelo about what comes next.

Later in the show, Washington ramps up pressure on Havana, even as report's surface of

discrete outreach to figures tied to the Castro family. Former CIA analyst friend of the show,

an author of Manufacturing Delusion, a new book, is Buck Sexton. He stops by to weigh in. But first, today's

situation report spotlight. President Trump has signaled that a decision on whether to strike Iran

could come within the next 10 days if Tehran doesn't agree to a meaningful nuclear deal,

warning that, quote, bad things will happen if it doesn't. Meanwhile, the United States has

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