Mike Baker

It's Monday, the 22nd of June.

Now, for all you dads listening and watching the PDB in the U.S., I hope you had a most excellent Father's Day.

And here's, of course, to all the amazing moms who tolerate the dads.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is closed again.

Uh-oh, just days after signing a memorandum of understanding with the U.S.

And the key flashpoint continues to be Lebanon and Hezbollah, which is exactly what the Iranian regime intended when they insisted that Hezbollah be included as part of the MOU.

We'll look at why the fighting in Lebanon is threatening to derail the deal.

Later in the show, after more than 50 days of disruptive roadblocks and protests, Bolivia's president is escalating the government's response against deadly anti-government protests, deploying the military and declaring emergency powers to restore order.

Plus, Ukraine continues turning the screws on occupied Crimea, forcing Russian authorities to suspend civilian gasoline sales after a series of strikes targeting the fuel supplies across the peninsula.

And in today's Back of the Brief, relations between Poland and Ukraine hit another rough patch after President Zelensky returned the country's highest Polish honor in a dispute rooted all the way back in World War II.

But first, today's PDB Spotlight.

The U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is barely a week old, and it's already a Memorandum of Misunderstanding.

You see what I did there?

That's a little bit of wordplay.

Vice President J.D.

Vance arrived in Switzerland this weekend for a round of talks with Iranian negotiators aimed at building on the much-touted MOU signed just last week by President Trump and Iranian President Massoud Bozeshkin.

The negotiations, supposedly with a 60-day time frame, are reportedly to focus on the host of unresolved issues, including Iran's nuclear program, sanctions relief, and the future of Tehran's uranium stockpile.