Greg Myre
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But it just shows you the complications there that the Gulf is being turned upside down.
It's having a big impact already economically on their airports, on their economies, on the flow of oil through the Gulf.
So, yes, it's already playing out in the region.
Yeah, Trump has said that, in particular with missiles, saying that Iran is working on long-range missiles that could hit the U.S.
pretty soon.
Right now, Iran's missiles can hit Israel or other countries in the Middle East.
But there's just no evidence that they would be able to build missiles that could come all the way to the U.S.,
The Defense Intelligence Agency, which is part of the Pentagon, the Defense Intelligence Agency put out this report last year saying that Iran has begun to work on a space program and systems that could build intercontinental ballistic missiles.
but that they estimated it would take until 2035 before Iran could do something like that.
So almost a decade away before they could.
They don't have that now.
And again, when it comes to the nuclear program, Trump said that it was obliterated last year.
Now, that seemed to be a bit of an exaggeration, but it was substantially damaged and there's been no evidence that
that the enrichment, which is the real centerpiece of the program, has resumed.
There may be some peripheral stuff that's going on right now.
So Iran is still a dangerous country.
It has missiles.
It has been involved throughout the region and has targeted the U.S.
and Israel and in many places over the years.
But to say it isn't