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Each morning, the President of the United States receives a highly classified briefing on the most important issues facing the country -- The President's Daily Brief. Now you can hear your very own PDB, in the form of a podcast, every morning at 6am Eastern, and every afternoon at 4pm Eastern.

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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | October 7th, 2026: The U.S. Just Laid Out Its Terms for Ending the Iran War

October 7, 2026

Mike Baker (0:11)

It's Wednesday, the 7th of October, welcome to The PDB Afternoon Bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. First up, the Trump administration is laying out what Iran would have to do to end the war. But seven months in, Washington still isn't sure who in Tehran…

Tehran, of course, is insisting otherwise. Today, an advisor to the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, claimed that Iran still has full control over the waterway and said Tehran will soon close what it describes as illegal shipping routes near Oman.

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