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Speaker 1: We are tracking major developments out of the Middle East

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Speaker 1: amid a massive US military build up, and reports indicate

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Speaker 1: tonight that Israeli officials believe that war could be just

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Speaker 1: days away.

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Speaker 2: Well, you've got.

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Speaker 3: Gas prices in oil market's acting like a Canarian a

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Speaker 3: coal mine for today. That's going to affect the real economy.

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Speaker 3: Foreign policy escalates, energy costs are getting sticky and hit everyday.

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Speaker 3: Americans at the pomp and we were told that Iran's

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Speaker 3: nuclear capabilities were destroyed last summer. And it really makes

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Speaker 3: me question if people are pushing Trump towards war with

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Speaker 3: Iran despite his better instincts. I mean, this is the

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Speaker 3: guy who's creating the Board of Peace Right. He brags

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Speaker 3: constantly about the wars that he has ended. So what's

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Speaker 3: going on here? Who's behind this? Is that the warhawks?

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Speaker 3: Is that the Trump administration? Is this a chemistry issue

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Speaker 3: because of the light crude oil that Iran has? Is

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Speaker 3: this about freedom? Is it about the Iranian people? Is

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Speaker 3: it about instability in the Middle East?

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Speaker 2: I'm sure all of those things are. Yeah, all of

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Speaker 2: those are contributing factors. In fact, Donald Trump, in the

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Speaker 2: last few minutes just came out and spoke about this.

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Speaker 2: He issued a new ten day ultimatum to Iran on

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Speaker 2: a piece deal or else hill unleash bombing. So this

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Speaker 2: is kind of a pretty important part of this because

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Speaker 2: there's been a lot of discussion in the last twenty

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Speaker 2: four to forty eight hours that this build up in

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Speaker 2: the Middle East is pretty much complete. We've got two

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Speaker 2: carrier battlegroups that are in the Middle East right now.

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Speaker 2: There's been a lot of tanker planes. There's been reports

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Speaker 2: of B two stealth bombers that have been sent to

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Speaker 2: the region, and people were talking about, oh, we should

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Speaker 2: look at an attack on Iran here, you know, in

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Speaker 2: the next day, maybe by the end of the weekend.

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Speaker 2: And now Trump is kind of pumping the brakes on

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Speaker 2: that a little bit, and just literally minutes ago issued

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Speaker 2: a new ten day ultimatum to Iran, So that would

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Speaker 2: that the ultimatum would then expire on March first.

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Speaker 3: So it does seem like the US is going to

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Speaker 3: maintain some maximum pressure both economically and militarily until Tyran

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Speaker 3: either collapses or compromises strategically and they got to give

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Speaker 3: in something.

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Speaker 2: This is the big question here, is this just negotiating

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Speaker 2: with Donald Trump or is he ready to pull the

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Speaker 2: trigger and actually attack Iran. So I mean look back

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Speaker 2: to previous things we talked about. We were talking about

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Speaker 2: Greenland a month ago, and you know, Donald Trump was

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Speaker 2: talking about how he would not take military action off

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Speaker 2: the table, and then ultimately they you know, settled on

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Speaker 2: an agreement that worked for Donald Trump and going back

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Speaker 2: to Maduro in Venezuela, and we had the military build

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Speaker 2: up there and people thought, oh, this is just Donald Trump,

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Speaker 2: He's just negotiating. Nope, that one turned out to be true.

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Speaker 2: We went in and took Maduro. So there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of questions as to what Donald Trump is going to

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Speaker 2: do in this specific situation. I know that makes a

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Speaker 2: lot of world leaders nervous.

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Speaker 3: Well, it also makes the global energy markets very unstable

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Speaker 3: as well. You've got the Strait of Removes, which is

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Speaker 3: a key choke point. Twenty percent of the world's oil

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Speaker 3: traffic goes flows through there, so any disruption there is

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Speaker 3: gonna obviously affect global supply.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the single largest US buildup of American

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Speaker 2: might in the Persian Gulf region since the Second Iraq

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Speaker 2: War in two thousand and three. So all signs seem

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Speaker 2: to be pointing there, and look, I hope that we

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Speaker 2: end up with the negotiation. I don't want the United

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Speaker 2: States to bomber ran That's not what I'm for. That's

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Speaker 2: that's not what Donald Trump ran on when he was,

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Speaker 2: you know, going up for election in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Now we've got ten days and hopefully cooler heads will

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Speaker 2: prevail and we can get some sort of negotiated deal

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Speaker 2: and not have to resort to military actions.

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Speaker 3: You also have to look at these headlines. It's it's

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Speaker 3: you've got the Wall Street Journal, Iran is getting ready

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Speaker 3: for war with the US Axios. Trump moves closer to

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Speaker 3: major war with Iran. It's like they're pushing it. They're

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Speaker 3: just so fingers crossed wanting it to happen. And then

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Speaker 3: you've got the former Secretary of State Pompeo, and he

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Speaker 3: said that they know the Iranian regime isn't going to

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Speaker 3: give up its ballistic missiles, or its support for terrorism,

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Speaker 3: or its efforts to obtain nuclear weapons. So Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: has to find a solution.

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Speaker 4: You'll recall before Operation Midnight Hammer as well as before

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Speaker 4: the strike that was taken against Iran which took out

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Speaker 4: Solamani in the first Trump administration. There was no notice.

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Speaker 4: It came at a time that was unexpected, lots of preparation,

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Speaker 4: but it wasn't the case that the President made an

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Speaker 4: announcement that said negotiations are over, We're about to strike,

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Speaker 4: and just actually did it. I suspect that's what we'll

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Speaker 4: see this time as well. I've seen the comments from

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Speaker 4: the Iranian foreign minister. That's all just silliness. There is

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Speaker 4: apparently no overlap in RAN's willingness to actually concede on

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Speaker 4: ballistic missiles, on their proxy forces, or even on nuclear

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Speaker 4: and Richmond. President Trump won't take a bad deal. I'm

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Speaker 4: convinced of that. That means more pressure from the Israelis

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Speaker 4: and from the United States of America.