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Is this the most dangerous phase yet of the US war on Iran, or the moment the empire loses whatever control it still has? Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi joins me for our monthly assessment of the conflict. He finds that Iran's retaliation now far outpacing Washington's. Recently Iran struck eight tankers, ten commercial ships, and fired warning shots at two US warships, all in response to unprovoked American strikes that hit a wedding. Marandi explains why Iran has abandoned its defensive posture for good and why the Gulf regimes that hosted this war are now the ones paying for it in dwindling reserves and battered economies. We examine why even Trump's own allies, from the Gulf states to Britain, are quietly breaking ranks with him, and why, of the only three ways this war can plausibly end, just one party has any real interest in prolonging it: the Israeli regime itself.