Saagar Enjeti

In deja vu for this show, we had something planned for a ceasefire, and yet it begins with an exchange of fire last night between the United States and Iran.

Let's go ahead and put this up here on the screen.

Actually, arguably the more serious exchanges of fire that have happened now, the United States has struck Iranian air defenses on Keshem Island after Iran brought down an MQ-1 drone, a $4 million surveillance drone from the United States.

The U.S.

fighters also claim that they shot down two Iranian attackers.

that posed a threat to ships in the Strait of Hormuz and transiting oil tankers.

So Kuwait, as of this morning, said that the country was then under attack by ballistic missiles and drones.

Alarms sounded across the country, United States taking out some air defense systems, radar, and drone sites on Keshem Island.

So all of this is very familiar, but

The exchange of fire, the serious exchange of fire here, multiple different things happening, U.S.

bases that were under attack, actually come on the heels of a more serious development, which is the hot conflict in Lebanon, which, of course, we've been covering day after day here on the show for this very reason.

Iran has said unequivocally that the ceasefire applies to Lebanon.

This was confirmed by the Pakistanis in the original interview.

April 7 announcement of the ceasefire.

Of course, this fire never actually ceased in Lebanon.

Iran was willing to give the United States some ground where they were trying to negotiate a ceasefire between the Lebanese government and between the Israeli government.

All of that apparently has currently, as of right now, seems to have failed.

Here is a major reminder by the Iranian foreign minister.

Let's put this up here on the screen.

Again, literally breaking minutes before even doing our show.