What's next in Iran?
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Over the past week, the United States and Iran have exchanged communications over plans to end the war between the countries, though talks have yet to produce a breakthrough. On Monday, President Donald Trump said the pause in fighting is on “life support,” calling Iran’s most recent response to a U.S. peace proposal unacceptable. Separately, the Strait of Hormuz remains mostly closed to commercial traffic, with the U.S. and Iran exchanging fire in the waterway last week.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm your host today, Isaac Saul. I'm going to be joined by senior editor Will Kayback on the pod, and we're going to be covering the latest in Iran. |
| 0:39.0 | That's today's main story. |
| 0:44.9 | It is Tuesday, May 12th, a beautiful day here in New Jersey. Before we jump in to today's main topic, |
| 0:52.7 | a quick plug. Our Tangle Instagram channel is about 10,000 followers. It is grown into this really awesome valuable source for breaking news |
| 0:56.1 | and political analysis. And our social media editor, Russell Nystrom, has put so much work |
| 1:02.2 | into it. And we're really close. We're 91,000 followers. He's been chasing this 100,000 |
| 1:08.1 | follower benchmark for a long time. We don't buy followers. We don't pay for |
| 1:12.8 | followers. We've done this all organically through growing the Tangle community. So if you're a social |
| 1:17.6 | media user, if you're on Instagram, if you're looking for a way to improve your news |
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| 1:28.5 | and I encourage you to go check it out. It's a totally different platform than our newsletter or |
| 1:32.6 | podcast. We do a lot of breaking news, video clips, clips from the show that are video, |
| 1:37.5 | all sorts of fun stuff. It is worth the follow. And shout out to Russell, who's been |
| 1:43.0 | driving that. All right, with that, I'm going to |
| 1:45.4 | hand it over to Will for today's main topic, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 1:56.4 | Thanks, Isaac. All right, here are today's quick hits. Number one, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index rose 0.6% on a monthly basis and 3.8% from the year prior. |
| 2:10.8 | The annual rate increase is the highest since May 2023, with energy prices as a significant driver. Number two, the Supreme Court overturned a |
| 2:20.5 | lower court order that had blocked Alabama from using a congressional map adopted in 2023 |
| 2:26.0 | because it violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The court did not explain its ruling, |
| 2:31.8 | which follows an April 29th decision that narrowed the |
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