Negar Mortazavi

As the war enters another day, the situation remains as unclear as ever.

President Trump moves between diplomatic, economic, and military tactics, but what choices does he have left? Joining us now, Negar Mortazavi.

She's a journalist and host of the Iran Podcast and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy.

Hey, Negar, it's great to have you back.

And then potentially what the Iranians are preparing is that this war could continue until the end of President Trump's term, and that's the signal they're sending, that they're willing to fight it for as long as it takes.

But I think the one message they want to send long term is they want to make it as painful as possible for the U.S. side that the next president after, uh, President Trump wouldn't come back and attack them and continue this war.

Well, that's Negar Mortazavi.

She's host of the Iran Podcast and senior fellow at the Center for International Policy.

Essentially, if you remove the Iranian fleet and the airlines out of that flight, you're only left with very few foreign Airlines that fly in and out of Iran flights are very limited and also it will be just make it so much more expensive Whatever is left if anything is left and so this is going to impact ordinary Iranians middle-class working-class Iranians for all kinds of short and long trips outside the country that Used to be done with many of these Iranian Airlines and that now just it's made it impossible and this is also going to impact some markets for example medicine, specialized medicine or certain kind of other essential goods that do come through the air route are going to also be impacted.

Negar Mortazavi, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy.

Always great to get your perspective.

Thank you.

The new report says the US targeted that school, acting recklessly and not just out of negligence.

Negar Mortazavi with the Center for International Policy told Peter O'Dowd more about the findings.

So let's remember, this is the opening of the war, one of the first attacks on the first target list.

This is even before the Iranians start retaliating or shooting back, so we're not talking about heat of the war, fog of war, anything.

... a wedding was hit in Iran.

All right.

Negar Mortazavi, senior fellow with the Center for International Policy, host of the Iran Podcast.

Thanks as always.

This chaos pushed the price of Brent crude oil over $100 a barrel again today.

Negar Mortazavi is senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and host of the Iran Podcast.

Negar, start with what happened last night, which is, uh, the US bombing the Iranian oil tankers.

What is the US saying about that? What more do we know?

-and then at some point, this would prompt President Trump to either end the war or come to a diplomatic resolution.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, Negar Mortazavi, host of the Iran Podcast and senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, thank you.

Thanks for having me.