The Iranian perspective, what Iranian officials are actually saying, has been largely erased

from most Western media coverage. We're getting bombarded, of course, all the time by the

perspective of the US, by Israel. But what Iranian officials are saying and thinking and their

strategy is just being completely neglected. Now, there's one exception to that, which is

Dropsite News, a brilliant

media organisation, which has actually been reaching out and speaking to the Iranian officials

to work out what their strategy is. And it is pissing off the Trump administration, to say the least.

And the Trump administration, as we know, is acting all surprised and shocked at, you know,

the idea that the Iranian regime would have shut down the strait of Hormuz, that it's attacking Gulf allies.

When they've just been broadcasting what would happen if they were attacked.

James Scarhill, brilliant co-founder at Dropside Needs, great to speak to you.

Now, you've been doing this brilliant journalism.

You've been speaking to Iranian officials.

Just tell me about that. Tell me kind of why that's important, because I think that angle is you

have to go to Dropside News a lot of the time to work out what's going on.

You know, I've been a journalist for a quarter of a century, and never in my life in media,

have I ever seen a more intense effort to criminalize

talking to the other side or speaking to forces or groups or in this case officials from a

nation state that the western world and specifically the U.S. public is told these are these are

the enemies. This is a,

this should just be a central part of journalism, that, you know, particularly when the president

of the United States has made a decision without the approval of the United States Congress to

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