Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

A day of kinetic action in the Middle East as the U.S. ramps up strikes across Iran.

And Trump's 8 p.m. deadline approaches. I asked international security specialist Colin Clark and former U.S. Army Commanding General Mark

Hurtling, where they see the next hours heading. Then is Hungary on the brink of historic

political change and why is America so invested? With strongman VIX Prime Minister Victor

Orban trailing in the polls, Atlantic staff rider Anne Applebaum breaks down what's at stake.

Plus, will AI bring doom, salvation, or perhaps a bit of both?

I speak to AI ethicist Tristan Harris about the thin line between asset and threat.

Welcome to the program, everyone.

I'm Biana Goldrega, New York, sitting in for Christian Amunpoor. Looming deadlines, faltering diplomacy, and now an extraordinary new threat from the U.S.

president that a whole civilization will die tonight. The U.S. has begun attacking military targets on Iran's Karg Island, from which almost all of the country's oil is exported.

Now, it comes as Trump's deadline for Iran to reopen the strait of war moves is fast approaching.

If Tehran doesn't back down, Trump says the U.S. will unleash a wave of strikes on Iran's

power plants and bridges. It's something Israel is already doing. Benjamin Netanyahu announcing earlier

that Israeli forces have hit eight bridges, it claims, were being used to transport military

equipment. Experts warned that the continued and direct targeting of civilian infrastructure

would likely amount to war crimes and will inflict even greater suffering on the people there.

To take stock of where we are ahead of Trump's self-imposed 8 p.m. deadline, I want to bring in Colin Clark,

executive director of the Sufant Center, and Mark Hartling, a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General,

and author of If I Don't Return, a Father's Wartime Journal. Welcome, both of you.

Great to have you and your perspective and expertise on the program.

General, let me start with you.

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