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Hello, Prestige Heads and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner. Here, as always,

is my friend and comrade Derek Davison on this Sunday, the aides of March, March 15th, RIP Caesar.

And we are here to give you an update on the war in Iran. If you haven't subscribed to the show,

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Derek, let's jump into it, and let's start with the Barming of Karg Island.

Right, this was late Friday. Donald Trump popped on social media to declare that the U.S.

had bombed Karg Island. We've talked about Karg a little bit. In past, it is the oil terminus

for almost all of Iran's exports. I think it handles somewhere around 90%

ish, according to most estimates of Iran's oil exports, go through car and they get loaded,

loaded onto tankers there and sent out through the Strait of Hormuz, which is continuing, you know,

because the Iranians obviously are not closing the Strait of Hormuz

to their own oil shipments.

In fact, they seem to be exporting more oil right now

than they were before the war started.

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