The Best Iran War Breakdown You'll See on the Internet with Aimen Dean & Richard Miniter
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Hello, everybody, and a very warm welcome to our very special live update on the situation in Iran. We are super excited, if it's an appropriate word, to bring this to you because we have literally two of the very best guests in the world to discuss this. We have the amazing American investigative journalist, repeated former guest of Trigonometry, of course, Richard Miniter, who's written a number of bestsellers, including about terrorism, losing bin Laden, mastermind, and leading from behind. And in addition to that, he's based in Washington, D.C., from which he can bring us all the inside scoops. And in addition to that, we, of course, have Eamon Dean, another former guest of the show, who is a former Al-Qaeda member, became an MI6 double agent, and he is now the co-host of the Conflicted podcast with Thomas Small, another of our former guests, which covers the various conflicts in the Middle East.
And he's coming to us live from Dubai, where he's literally got fighter jets zooming past him, behind him. So welcome to you both, gentlemen. Thank you so much for joining us. We really, first and foremost, just want to find out, Richard, tell us first and first of all, what has happened in the last two days? Well, it is the largest series of air sorties that Israel has ever conducted and one of the largest in U.S. history as well. So we're looking at, in the last 48 hours, something approaching 2,000 separate sorties, looking at Israel and the United States combined. This air operation is one of the largest in human history. The number of targets on the ground destroyed. They're still doing battle damage assessments, but is immense.
It is interesting what they're not striking. They're not striking water, power and other things for the most part, except where those power facilities enable launching of long range missiles. Yeah. uh the most interesting thing to have happened which suggests that this will be a much longer conflict than necessary then might be strictly necessary if you think about it in terms of the 12-day war that was waged earlier this uh late last year or you look at um the gulf war for example the shock and awe campaign of the gulf war is that the ayatollah hamani before he died apparently issued standing orders to individual military units allowing them to act on their own. Iran's foreign minister, in complaining on state-run broadcasts about the attack on Oman, said, we have no control over those units.
They're functioning on standing orders. They didn't mean to attack Oman, which has served as a vital intermediary between the Europeans and the Americans on the one hand and Iran on the other. long seen as a kind of Switzerland of the Gulf region, for them to be attacked indicates that there's no longer centralized command and control over the military. They're deciding on their own targets and they're in a use it or lose it situation. In other words, if they do not use their rockets and missiles now, their drones now, they may not exist 24, 48 hours from now. So there is – they're doing their own target selection. What does all that mean strategically? It means that getting control, getting someone to negotiate with who could actually stop the Iranian attacks will be very difficult.
The Iranians are very intelligent, very sophisticated, 3D chess-playing kind of people and have been for centuries. And the fact that the Ayatollah figured this out in advance, knew his life may well be taken, and that of his top leadership dispersed authority down precisely to lengthen the war. So this person who has directed attacks against Iran israelis americans and europeans for more than four decades even in death set up an autopilot to allow for the continuing carnage this is a blood-stained legacy they will not be mourned by many outside of the inner circle And Richard, before we bring Eamon in, just very quickly, you mentioned that they've got use it or lose it situation. If you don't launch the missiles, they're going to get destroyed.
How many do they have?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–7:04
2
What recent events have escalated the Middle East crisis?
7:04–8:30
3
How significant are the recent air sorties conducted by Israel?
8:30–15:32
4
What does the Iranian leadership's decentralized command mean for the conflict?
15:32–48:04
5
How has Iran's military strategy evolved over the years?
48:04–1:09:41
6
What role did the October 7th events play in the current crisis?
1:09:41–1:18:13
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