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Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.

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US forces struck Iran for a ninth consecutive day on Monday as the number of confirmed American military deaths in the renewed fighting rose to three, and concerns grew over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which the Trump administration accused the Islamic Republic of seeking to control “as leverage against the world.”

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