All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation with Iran.

Reuters reported yesterday that, according to their sources, there was going to be military action against Iran.

Here we are recording this video on this Thursday afternoon, my time, and there has been no military action against Iran.

Trump did appear to tone down his rhetoric towards Iran and the protesters in the White House.

But of course, with Trump, you know, you have all kinds of misdirection and trickery in the way he's conducting

foreign policy. So he could appear to be toning down his rhetoric while behind the scenes

he could be preparing an attack. But as things stand, we do not have a U.S. strike on Iran. We have the, actually, we have

news that flights are resuming now in Iran. They close the airspace, but the flights are resuming.

And Alexander also comment on the Washington Post article, which claims that Israel and Iran, through Russia,

they decided to come to some sort of an understanding that neither side would strike the other side first.

So your thoughts on what's happening?

Yes, I think we came very, very close to an attack on Iran yesterday.

All of the indications were building up to that.

We saw movements of troops out of the Gulf states, out of Qatar and all of these places. And that, by the way, is a sign,

not that there was not going to be an attack, but that we were heading towards some kind of an attack.

Because, as I said, what the Americans and the British and the others seem to be doing

was that they were getting vulnerable

troops out of harm's way, which suggested that an attack was coming, and there was interruptions

to the flights, and there was extraordinarily fiery rhetoric coming out of Iran, and there

were reports that the Iranian Air Force, such as it is, had, had, its aircraft had taken off.

That was not, by the way, in order to shoot down American aircraft.

It was to ensure that the Iranian aircraft were not destroyed on the runways of their air bases,

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