Is the U.S.-Iran war back on?
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Good morning and welcome to The Daily Oz. It is Friday the 10th of July. I'm Sam Kozlowski.
I'm Billie Fitzsimons.
As we record this, the ceasefire between the US and Iran is falling apart. Ships have been attacked in a key shipping route off the coast of Iran. The US has struck back and Donald Trump says that the deal is over.
To me, I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them anymore. They're scum. You know what scum is? They're scum. They're sick people. They're led by sick people. And they're vicious, violent people. And if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd use it. As far as I'm concerned, it's over.
On today's podcast, we're going to take a look at what has happened in the region in the last seven days or so, why a Supreme Leader who died months ago is only being buried this week, and whether or not we are going back to a full-blown war.
Sam, I thought this war was over.
How did the U.S.-Iran conflict restart after a recent ceasefire?
I think most of the world did, to be honest. Yes. This was kind of, you know, a big crescendo to a ceasefire deal that happened only a couple of weeks ago. I remember you and I were talking every day in the office of this kind of, you know, a press release would come out saying that they're moments away from signing a deal and then one side would come out and say that there's no deal to be had and it's all going back to war again. And then eventually a deal was signed. But, yes, we're kind of back at square one.
And the thing about the ceasefire deal that was signed a couple of weeks ago now was that it was meant to give the space to sign a permanent peace deal.
Exactly.
That hopefully would have given some sort of a permanent solution to the war.
Yeah, there was a real optimism about the ability for negotiators to actually do a deal in this period.
Yes. But now we're in a position where I think it was Wednesday when US President Donald Trump basically said that that ceasefire deal is over. Before we get to that, do you think we should just go back to the start? And it kind of, I think as soon as the war is over, it's easy to forget about the key moments that happened that felt so huge at the time. Take us back to how it started quickly. Yeah.
Yeah, so we're going back to the end of February this year. The US and Israel launched this massive surprise attack on Iran, particularly in the capital, Tehran. And I'd say the key moment of that first 24 hours was the strike on a group of Iranian leaders who are meeting at 8am on a Saturday morning in the middle of the city. And amongst them was Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on that very first day of the war. On that strike on a leadership meeting in a compound in Tehran, he was 86 and he'd led Iran since 1989. So the longtime, very hardline leader of the country, dead on day one.
And his funeral was only this week.
Yeah, and it's really confusing because normally in Islam, like a number of other religions, the custom is to bury people as soon as possible after their death. But here we are a couple of months later and the funeral's happening. Now, that's because of the war that was started by those strikes and carried on. Basically, Iranian authorities... Decided that it was not the appropriate conditions to host a funeral, which is a multi-day. I mean, this is a funeral that traditionally lasts seven days. Millions of people take to the streets to mark and commemorate the death of the leader. There are representatives from 100 countries around the world. There are millions of pilgrims, so non-Iranians, who have actually travelled to Iran, to the capital in Tehran,
to be part of the funeral commemorations. And so you can imagine that with all of those logistics, there was not a real ability for officials to actually pull off this funeral during the war. When the ceasefire was reached a couple of weeks ago, that's when Iranian authorities said, OK, we're going to do this funeral now.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:17
2
How did the U.S.-Iran conflict restart after a recent ceasefire?
1:17–12:39
3
What happened in the February strikes that killed Iran's Supreme Leader?
12:39–16:29
4
Why was the late Supreme Leader's funeral delayed until this week?
16:29–23:35
5
Who is the new Ayatollah and what do we know about his condition?
23:35–24:54