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Thank you. Next conversation. Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome.

I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek

Davison, and we come to you the day after liberation day. Derek and I are hooting. We are

hollering and we're just so excited for where this country is headed. Clearly in a positive direction.

I mean, I think that's the bottom line. we're liberated. As liberated peoples.

So let's bring you the news.

Starting off in the land of liberation, Derek, tell us about this risk of a U.S.-Aran conflict.

Yes, we may be liberating Iranians from the burden of having a functioning country, I guess.

There's been a lot of chatter of late, and I felt like we should talk about it here, about the possibility of a U.S. military escalation vis-à-vis Iran.

And to just recap where we are, Donald Trump several weeks ago sent Iran a letter, sent the Iranian government Supreme Leader Ali Khomeini, a letter kind of asking him to consider negotiations over a new nuclear deal. You may recall Trump tore up the last nuclear deal in 2018 during his first term.

He wants to do another nuclear deal that I guess he would consider better than the one that Barack Obama negotiated.

It would probably not be objectively better, but he would think of it that way because he did it.

So he wants new negotiations.

The Iranians have responded to that somewhat coolly.

They've noted understandably that they don't feel like they can trust anything that

Donald Trump agrees to because, of course, he or anything the United States agrees to, I guess,

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