From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story. I'm Luke Jones. And I'm Manvine Rana. Together at last. We don't often get to do this. Putting to bed the rumour that we are the same person. Have we though? Nobody can see us. Oh, good point. Could you be a very good ventful of us. We're not usually allowed in studio together at the same time, but this is a rarity. Because of the workload. Because of the workload, because the news has been relentless. There's been such an onslaught and so many of you have got in touch with questions about what's been happening. TheStoryatthe times.com. Do feel free to drop us a line. And we thought we'd take this opportunity

to answer some of your questions.

We're going to be talking about ICE Immigration Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis in the US,

the psychodrama of Westminster defections and blocked Manchester mayors here in the UK. And also,

what is happening with Iran? what is happening with Iran?

What is happening with Iran?

We have a green question.

We'll try and provide you with as many answers as we can, but let's have a look at some of the questions.

Right, let's start with Iran. So there's that standoff we've got at the moment, a fresh standoff between the US and Iran. Manvine, what is happening now and how is it different to what we've seen in years gone by?

That's a great question. I mean, we should say we're recording this on Thursday morning. This should drop in your feed later today. And as things stand, we've had a huge war of words between the

president and the Iranians, all on social media, which is very weird. Very weird. Lots of capital

letters. That's when you know it's serious. Lots of threats and counter threats. President Trump has

told everybody his armada. Keeps calling it it that and I sort of think if you're

British that has all sorts of other associations, they don't tend to work out well. His armada is

on its way. You know, it's in Middle Eastern waters heading towards Iran, which is a massive threat.

And it's to show that they really mean it this time. You know, they're backing up their

words with actions.

And the Iranians are saying if you want to have a proper discussion, if you want to talk about deals, we want to do it in a respectful way.

But if you want war, then we will certainly take that on.

And just remind us, this isn't necessarily directly about all the unrest that we've seen in Iran in the past few weeks.

This is about that deal which collapsed back in the last Trump presidency about Iran's

enriching of uranium to the extent that it could make nuclear weapons with it.

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