Tommy Vietor

All right.

We are recording a bonus pod Save the World episode because, as I'm sure listeners and viewers have seen, the United States and Israel are once again at war with Iran.

So we're going to update you on everything we know as of Saturday afternoon.

So this started at Saturday at 1.15 a.m.

Eastern Time, which is 9 a.m.

Tehran time.

The U.S.

and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran.

The U.S.

military is calling this Operation Epic Fury.

It's so totally epic, Ben, that Trump launched the war from his country club in Florida.

Targets so far include the supreme leader of Iran, his compound.

The Israelis say the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is dead and that Netanyahu was shown footage of his body.

That's in news reports.

Iran says that's false.

We'll find out, I guess.

But as we've noted, the supreme leader is 86.

So he was about to regime change himself, but his death would be a massive seismic event in Iranian history, given the role he plays in their system.

It sounds like he was specifically targeted by the Israelis and not by U.S.

forces and that they also targeted the Supreme Leader's son, but he may have survived the