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Hello, one and all, and welcome back to the damage port.

I'm John Ida Rola and for the first time when it feels like forever, I'm not alone anymore.

I've got someone on the show with me.

I'm very excited to be breaking down all of the news across Iran and some America.

And we'll see what else we invade live on the show. We'll be breaking

it down with Tehran who's back to Ron Von Ghazri. Welcome back to the show. Thank you for being here.

Thank you for having me. I feel like all you talk about is Iran, by the way. How have I not been

on the show more? Can we discuss that part? Yeah, we definitely should have prioritized having you on. We were like, we were like, okay, who would have the best, most interesting perspective on all of this? And so we did get you scheduled. We were like trying to get Maas in time. We're having a little bit of trouble with that. But anyway, there's just every day, there's, look,

you're gonna have opportunities. You wanna come back in a couple weeks? I have a feeling we'll still have a little disaster. How sad is that? Tehran, you wanna talk about what's going on? In Iran, you want to talk about that? You're ready? I'm ready. I don't know if we're ready, but I'm ready. Yeah, clearly I'm not, but you seem pretty ready. So I'm sure it'll balance that well.

Why don't we jump into our first story?

Should the world not take his word seriously?

The world should take his word very seriously in understanding that the president is always most interested in results.

And it was the Iranians who backed down, not President Trump. He said

that they would face very grave consequences as you just laid out by the 8 PM deadline if

they did not agree to reopening the street of Hermus. And what did they do last night? They

agreed to reopen the street of Hermose. Yeah, a little problem with that, actually a little

problem of everything that you just said. It is not open, not really. It was like totally shut down. Then they let four ships through, which is good.

I'm glad that the four ships through went through and didn't get bombed or whatever. I just want

to remind everyone before all of this started. On average, you know how many ships would

transit through the straight and four moves every day? 100. So it's not fully and completely open.

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