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Welcome to the National Security Hour on the America Out Loud Network, and I'm talking to my wonderful friend Claire Lopez today

about Trump's threat to Iran. He said a whole civilization will no longer exist. And I'm trying to

understand here, you even have some of the emacies, Claire, around the country saying, get a grip.

And they're talking about getting young people as human shields to protect certain parts of Iran.

Explain this to us.

Fill us in.

Yeah, thank you.

Well, great to be with you, BQ.

And what a day.

We are all awaiting in anticipation of President Trump's deadline tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern U.S. time for the Iranian regime or whatever's left of it to accept the conditions that begin, of course, with opening the Strait of Hormuz completely.

But there is also a much longer list of conditions that the United States has presented to Iran.

The language in President Trump's Truth social post, I think, was deliberately geared to be a little bit over the top.

Shocking.

Shocking.

Shocking.

But that is, I think, psychological warfare, if you will, to discombobulate the regime, to get them off balance,

to wonder if he is going to do carry through with the threats against infrastructure, bridges,

power plants, and so forth, to present himself as maybe a little bit like not stable and who knows what he could do.

I think that's deliberate.

I also don't believe that Americans or Israelis would ever bomb bridges or power plants that were surrounded by, covered by Iranian women and children, who, by the way, very most likely, are the family members of IRGC,

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