Mike Baker

But this... Say if we take it in this chunk of time.

The downing of the Apache attack helicopter, the strikes by the U.S., then the retaliatory strikes by Iran, and then...

further strikes, a second round of strikes, if you will, by the U.S.

Then you have President Trump announcing that he's going to have a third round of strikes.

We're going to hit them very hard.

And then all of a sudden he pulls back and he says, we're close to a deal.

What are we supposed to make of all of this?

I'm sorry for interrupting earlier, but before I forget, and if I don't jump in, typically, you know, I'm moving on to some other topic.

And the resources that you just referred to, all the money that's been spent on the nuclear program, and we'll revisit the issue of

you know what are we actually doing to try to lock them down on on discussions about the nuclear program but the money that's been spent over the years um you're right it hasn't gone to the iranian people hasn't gone to the infrastructure hasn't gone to water management

And part of our discussion nowadays that I want to talk about is the current conditions inside the country.

And so front and center there is there's been some reporting that and we talked about this before on the program, the issue of water scarcity, the crisis that could be staring them in the face.

Now, if we stick with the water issue just for a minute and get kind of granular, what are you hearing from sources on the ground about what it's like day to day?

Because it's one thing to say, okay, reservoirs are drying up or lakes are 5% of what they used to be just years ago.

But how is it impacting daily life for the Iranian population?

Well, and I think it's interesting.

We've seen some reporting talking about the tens of thousands of villages that have just gone away, right?

Because the wells for those villages aren't functioning anymore.

There's nothing down there.

There's nothing in the aquifer.