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The US and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury on February 28th, 2026. Iran's Supreme Leader is dead. His navy is sunk. His air force is destroyed. His son has been named as his successor. Trump demands unconditional surrender. Iran says it will never capitulate. Three hundred and thirty thousand people are displaced. And this war has no end in sight.
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Trump stood in the Oval Office on Tuesday and declared the war won. Then his Defense Secretary said he was disappointed there might be a ceasefire. Then the US sent a fifteen-point ceasefire plan to Iran through Pakistan. Then Iran's military aired a prerecorded video on state television mocking the Americans for negotiating with themselves.Day twenty-six of Operation Epic Fury, and the diplomatic and military tracks are running in full parallel — bombs falling on Tehran while Vance, Rubio, Witkoff, and Kushner are named as active negotiators.Also in this episode: Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant struck — Russia's symbol of its strategic relationship with Tehran hit during a notional diplomatic pause. Israel confirms it has now struck more than three thousand targets in Iran. Iran fires twelve waves of missiles at Israel. A drone hits Kuwait International Airport. Lebanon expels Iran's ambassador. Israel's finance minister says the Litani River should be the new border with Lebanon. One thousand troops from the Eighty-Second Airborne Division are deploying to the Middle East. Iran grants temporary assassination immunity to its Foreign Minister and Parliament Speaker for the five-day window. Iran signals it will permanently charge a fee for Strait of Hormuz transit — even after any deal. Trump's approval rating hits thirty-six percent, the lowest of his second term. The Philippines declares a national energy emergency. Japan begins releasing strategic oil reserves. And Republicans again kill a war powers resolution as Congress holds no public oversight hearings on a war now in its fourth week.The five-day window has four days left.
Hours before his 48-hour deadline expired, Trump posted on Truth Social in full capitals that the United States and Iran had held very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of hostilities — and that he was postponing all strikes on Iranian power plants for five days. Markets surged. Oil dropped thirteen percent in a single day. And then Iran said there were no talks. No negotiations. None whatsoever.This episode covers the most diplomatically charged day of the conflict so far. Trump claimed Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff held talks Sunday night with a top Iranian figure, that there are major points of agreement, and that the Strait of Hormuz will be jointly controlled as part of what he called a very serious form of regime change. Iran's Foreign Ministry, parliament speaker, IRGC, and senior officials all denied every word of it, calling Trump's claims fake news designed to manipulate oil markets.Also in this episode: Israel launches its most extensive wave of strikes on Tehran yet — described by correspondents on the ground as unprecedented in scale. The IRGC attacks US bases in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Iran surpasses 1,500 dead. Iran sets out its formal ceasefire conditions — a simultaneous halt across Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq — and announces a new nuclear doctrine that explicitly rejects zero enrichment. Iran's hardline former IRGC commander says the war continues until all sanctions are lifted and full legal guarantees are obtained. NATO pulls its security mission out of Iraq. The Red Cross president says war on essential infrastructure is war on civilians. The IEA says forty-plus Middle East energy assets have been severely damaged. And Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan emerge as the new intermediaries — passing messages neither side will publicly acknowledge.Five days. The clock is running again.
A bonus deep-dive episode of Epic Fury: The US-Iran War Podcast. Every precision strike, every missile intercept, every command kill in Operation Epic Fury runs through satellites. In this episode, we break down the four categories of military satellite capability shaping the conflict — imagery intelligence, signals intelligence, communications, and missile warning — and explain how the US is using them, how Iran is trying to counter them, and why the invisible war in orbit may matter as much as anything happening on the ground. We also cover Iran's own satellite assets, the role of Starlink inside Iran, GPS jamming across the Middle East, and the risk of conflict extending into space. Essential listening for anyone who wants to understand the full picture of how modern warfare actually works.
The clock has run out. Trump's 48-hour ultimatum to Iran expires tonight at 7:44pm Eastern Time — and Iran has not reopened the Strait of Hormuz. Instead, Tehran escalated. Iran's armed forces declared they are ready to close the Strait indefinitely if power plants are struck. Iran threatened to mine the entire Persian Gulf if its coastline is attacked. And the IRGC said on state television: do not doubt that we will do this.The International Energy Agency called it the greatest global energy security challenge in history. Asian stock markets collapsed on Monday morning — the Nikkei down three and a half percent, the Kospi down nearly five percent. Brent crude hit one hundred and fourteen dollars per barrel. US crude crossed one hundred dollars for the first time since the war began.Also in this episode: Israel launches a broad wave of strikes on Tehran and multiple Iranian cities as Monday begins. Iran's Red Crescent reports eighty thousand civilian units damaged across Iran in twenty-four days — including four hundred and ninety-eight schools and two hundred and seventy-five health facilities in Tehran province alone. Iran fires its four-hundredth-plus ballistic missile at Israel. The IAEA director-general warns Iran's enriched uranium will still exist after this war ends. Trump's National Security Advisor confirms exactly which power plants would be hit first. Britain's PM Starmer convenes an emergency economic meeting. Ukraine's Zelensky warns a long Iran war benefits Putin. And Iran signals it is monetizing control of the Strait as leverage — not as a military tactic.The deadline is tonight. What happens next defines the next phase of this war.
Day 23 of Operation Epic Fury. President Trump has issued a stark 48-hour ultimatum to Iran: fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or the United States will obliterate Iranian power plants, starting with the largest. Iran's military responded immediately, threatening to destroy all American energy, IT, and desalination infrastructure across the Middle East if its power grid is hit.Iranian ballistic missiles broke through Israeli air defenses overnight, striking the towns of Dimona and Arad in southern Israel — cities located near Israel's main nuclear research center. At least 180 people were hospitalised. Children were among the seriously injured. Iran said explicitly the Dimona strike was retaliation for a US-Israeli hit on Natanz.Also in this episode: Saudi Arabia expels Iran's military attaché and embassy staff from Riyadh. The Strait of Hormuz remains shut with 150 ships stalled and 20,000 sailors stranded. The UKMTO confirms 21 attacks on commercial vessels since March 1. The G7 and 22 nations issue coordinated condemnations of Iran. India moves to buy Iranian crude as BRICS diplomacy stirs. Iran's parliament speaker warns that any strike on Iranian power plants means energy infrastructure across the entire Gulf becomes a target — including desalination plants that millions depend on for drinking water. And a Qatari military helicopter crashes in the Persian Gulf, killing six.The 48-hour clock is running. Episode 24 will cover what happens when it expires.
Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia — the joint US-UK bomber base in the Indian Ocean, two thousand three hundred miles from Iran's coast. Neither missile hit. But Iran just demonstrated it has weapons that can reach far beyond the Middle East. The targeting doctrine has expanded.Natanz was struck again. Iran's armed forces spokesman threatened that tourist and entertainment centres worldwide will no longer be safe for American and Israeli officials. Iran launched its seventy-first wave of strikes against Israel, hitting Rishon LeZion with cluster warhead missiles including fragments that struck a kindergarten.Trump said the US is considering winding down. Hours later, thousands more Marines were confirmed heading to the region. An Israeli official said strikes will increase significantly this week. CENTCOM reported one hundred and thirty Iranian naval vessels destroyed — the largest naval elimination in a three-week period since World War Two.Goldman Sachs warned oil could stay above one hundred dollars through twenty twenty-seven. The US lifted sanctions on one hundred and forty million barrels of Iranian oil to try to calm markets. The Houthis are debating a naval blockade. Washington is reportedly considering occupying Kharg Island. Trump called NATO allies cowards. Putin congratulated Iran's Supreme Leader on Nowruz.Three thousand vessels sit anchored in the Gulf. The four-week timetable Trump originally set expires in one week. The war has not ended. It has reached the Indian Ocean.
Today is Nowruz. The Persian New Year began this morning at the spring equinox. Iran marked it by striking an oil refinery in Haifa. Saudi Arabia halted exports at Yanbu. Kuwait's Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery burned. Brent crude hit one hundred and nineteen dollars a barrel — up sixty-five percent since the war began.The UN Security Council passed a resolution thirteen to zero demanding Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Russia and China abstained rather than veto. Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister said the kingdom reserves the right to take military action against Iran. A Saudi royal family member warned the response will no longer be merely declarative.Trump told Japan's Prime Minister to send minesweepers, then invoked Pearl Harbour when asked why the US didn't warn its allies. Netanyahu said you can't make a revolution from the air — there must be a ground component. DNI Tulsi Gabbard confirmed under oath that Mojtaba Khamenei was seriously injured in an Israeli attack. The Pentagon asked Congress for two hundred billion dollars more to fund the war.Treasury Secretary Bessent suggested unsanctioning one hundred and forty million barrels of Iranian oil already on the water to stabilise markets — using Iranian barrels against the Iranians. Israel dropped twelve thousand bombs on Iran. The Rafah crossing reopened for the first time since the war began.In Tehran, streets are empty, Nowruz gatherings are banned, and Iranians send messages through the blackout describing fear, defiance, and the silence after explosions that the cawing of crows breaks.Three weeks in. No ceasefire. No negotiation. And the bombs do not stop for the New Year.
Three senior Iranian officials killed in forty-eight hours. Yesterday, Ali Larijani and the Basij commander. Today, intelligence minister Esmail Khatib — confirmed dead in an Israeli strike. Israel's military has been given a standing kill order: eliminate any senior Iranian official, no further political approval required.Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field — the world's largest. Iran retaliated by hitting Qatar's Ras Laffan Industrial City, the world's biggest liquefied natural gas export terminal, causing extensive damage. Iran published a list of named targets across the Gulf and told workers to evacuate. Trump threatened to massively blow up the entirety of South Pars if Qatar is struck again. He also said: we don't need the help of anyone. The Hormuz coalition is dead.An Iranian cluster munition killed three Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank — the first time Iranian missiles have killed people in the West Bank in this conflict. Israel issued its widest Lebanon evacuation order since twenty-oh-six. More than one point two million Lebanese are displaced. The IMO held an emergency session for twenty thousand stranded sailors.The Trump administration lifted Venezuela sanctions to fill the oil gap. Brent crude is up fifty percent since the war began. And Mojtaba Khamenei, the Supreme Leader who has not been seen in public in twenty days, issued his first written statement through Telegram, vowing the killers will pay.Nowruz — the Persian New Year — begins tomorrow. Iranian pilots told Iranians over open radio to celebrate. In Tehran, they are holding funerals instead.Day twenty. The energy war is here.
Ali Larijani is dead. The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council — the most visible surviving official of the Islamic Republic since the Supreme Leader went into hiding — was killed overnight in an Israeli airstrike. His son, his chief of staff, and his security detail died with him. So did Gholamreza Soleimani, the Basij commander. Iran fired over one hundred missiles at Israel in retaliation. Two people are dead near Tel Aviv.In Washington, Trump's own counterterrorism director resigned in protest. Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, posted his resignation letter publicly. He wrote that Iran posed no imminent threat, that the war was started due to pressure from Israel and its lobby, and that it is not too late to reverse course. Trump said it was a good thing Kent was out. Senator Mark Warner said Kent was right about the threat assessment.The United States dropped five-thousand-pound bunker-busting bombs on hardened Iranian missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude hit one hundred and fourteen dollars a barrel — the highest price since the COVID pandemic. Iraq's oil production has collapsed from four point three million barrels per day to one point two million. The Fertilizer Institute warned that fifty percent of global urea exports transit the Hormuz — this is now threatening global food security.Saudi Arabia hosted the first formal Arab foreign ministers' summit on the war. The Lebanese Army's first fatalities of the conflict were confirmed — soldiers killed by an Israeli airstrike in the south. And in Iran, Nowruz — the Persian New Year — falls on Friday. Families are gathering for funerals instead of festivities. The old year's troubles will not be left behind by a bonfire this time.Day nineteen. The men who might have ended this war are dead. The war continues.
The United Arab Emirates shut its entire airspace. The US Embassy in Baghdad was hit by three drones and four rockets — the most intense attack on that compound since the war began. And two hundred American service members have now been wounded, a figure that had been dramatically understated in official briefings until Tuesday.The IRGC spokesperson said Iran's oldest missiles are what has been fired so far, and that the weapons built since the twelve-day war with Israel in June twenty twenty-five have not been deployed. CENTCOM says Iran's military is finished. Iran says it hasn't started yet.Trump confirmed he has requested a delay to the Xi Jinping summit by approximately one month. The EU foreign ministers voted against sending warships to the Strait of Hormuz. The IMO chief said naval escorts would not guarantee safe passage even if they arrived. Brent crude remains above one hundred dollars. One million Lebanese are displaced. Israeli ground forces have entered southern Lebanon. Five Western leaders said a large-scale ground operation must be averted.Trump threatened to revoke broadcasters' licences over war coverage. Pope Leo the Fourteenth told journalists not to become megaphones for power. And Iran is formally seeking reparations for the Minab school attack, building the legal case it will need when this eventually ends.Day eighteen. The fires are burning from Baghdad to Abu Dhabi to Arak.
In this bonus deep-dive episode of Epic Fury: The US-Iran War Podcast, we explain everything you need to know about the Strait of Hormuz and why it sits at the very centre of the US-Iran conflict of 2026.Twenty percent of the world's oil passes through a channel just twenty-one miles wide. Since Operation Epic Fury began on February 28, 2026, commercial shipping through the strait has effectively collapsed. Oil prices have surged above eighty-five dollars a barrel. Six of the world's largest shipping companies have suspended transits. Lloyd's of London has declared the Persian Gulf a war risk zone. And Iran is using the threat of closure as its most powerful remaining weapon against the United States and the global economy.In this episode we cover: why the Strait of Hormuz is the single most important energy choke point on earth, how Iran has spent forty years building its military strategy around controlling it, what the IRGC Navy's asymmetric warfare doctrine actually means in practice, which countries are most exposed to a prolonged closure, why the pipeline alternatives fall dangerously short, what the Tanker War of the 1980s tells us about the current crisis, and why the strait will be central to any deal that eventually ends this war.If you want to understand what is really at stake in the Iran war beyond the daily strike counts, this is the episode to listen to.New episodes daily. Subscribe so you never miss an update.
Trump claimed Iran wants to negotiate. Iran's Foreign Minister went on American television and said the opposite. No, we never asked for a ceasefire. And we have never asked even for negotiation. We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes.That contradiction defined day seventeen of Operation Epic Fury. Araghchi spelled out Iran's actual terms: guarantees the war will not be repeated, and reparations paid. Not an offer. A wall.Trump demanded NATO allies send warships to the Strait of Hormuz. Japan, Australia, and every European government said no. Trump then told the Financial Times his planned summit with Xi Jinping could be delayed unless Beijing helps reopen the waterway. China has not moved. Oil closed above one hundred and six dollars per barrel. Nearly one thousand tankers sit anchored outside the strait.A drone hit a fuel storage tank near Dubai International Airport in the early hours of Monday morning. Flights were suspended. The terminal was evacuated. The fire was contained. But one of the world's busiest airports was brought to a standstill.Mojtaba Khamenei has still not appeared in public. Trump said he does not know if the Supreme Leader is alive. Araghchi said there is no problem. He produced no evidence.Iran launched its fiftieth wave of strikes. Two hundred and twenty-three women and two hundred and two children confirmed dead inside Iran. Eight hundred and fifty killed in Lebanon. A preliminary Israel-Lebanon ceasefire track has emerged, fragile and contested. And Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince is privately urging Trump to keep hitting Iran hard.Day seventeen. The bombing continues. The talks do not. And somewhere, the shape of an exit is beginning to form in the shadows.Operation Epic Fury day seventeen, Iran war ceasefire negotiations, Trump Xi Jinping summit delayed Hormuz, Dubai airport drone strike, Mojtaba Khamenei alive, Iran war oil prices, Araghchi CBS Face the Nation, Israel Lebanon ceasefire talks, US Iran war podcast, Middle East war 2026.
Day sixteen of Operation Epic Fury and the war's central strategic failure is now fully exposed. Sixteen days of the most intensive air campaign in modern history, and the United States cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz without asking China for help.Trump posted on Truth Social calling on China, France, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom to send warships to the Gulf in conjunction with American forces. He said the US would be bombing the hell out of the shoreline in the meantime. Iran's Foreign Minister immediately posted a response calling it begging, and noting that the touted US security umbrella had proven full of holes.Trump gave a thirty-minute interview to NBC News and said Iran has expressed interest in a ceasefire deal. He rejected it. The terms are not good enough yet. He would not say what terms would be acceptable. He also said the US may hit Kharg Island a few more times just for fun.The Pentagon named the six US service members killed in the KC-135 crash in Iraq. Their average age was thirty-two. The youngest, Technical Sergeant Tyler Simmons, was twenty-eight. Confirmed American military deaths in this conflict now stand at nineteen.Formula One cancelled its Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Grand Prix races in April. Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait declared force majeure on gas exports. The USS Nimitz had its service life extended to 2027 because of the war. UN Secretary-General Guterres flew to Beirut and told both sides there is no military solution. And Trump's own AI adviser David Sacks publicly warned that Iran has a dead man's switch that could render Gulf states almost uninhabitable.Day sixteen. The coalition is being assembled. The deal is being refused. And the Strait is still closed.
Day fifteen of Operation Epic Fury and the United States crossed a line that had never been crossed before. Kharg Island — the tiny strip of land that processes ninety percent of Iran's crude oil exports — was bombed overnight. Trump called it one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of the Middle East. He said every military target was totally obliterated. He said, for reasons of decency, he chose not to destroy the oil infrastructure. For now.Iran's response was immediate and sweeping. Its armed forces warned they would target every oil, economic, and energy facility across the region with American ties. Saudi Aramco. Qatar Energy. Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. All of it. The IRGC separately told civilians to evacuate UAE ports and docks where US forces are based.Then a missile struck the helipad inside the US Embassy compound in Baghdad. Smoke rose above one of the largest American diplomatic facilities in the world.Pete Hegseth declared no quarter, no mercy — a phrase legal experts called a potential war crime. The US State Department put a ten million dollar bounty on Iran's Supreme Leader. Ten thousand interceptor drones were ordered to the Middle East. Two thousand two hundred Marines sailed toward the Gulf. Brent crude hit one hundred and three dollars. US petrol reached three dollars and sixty-eight cents — a twenty-three percent rise since the war began.Day fifteen. Kharg Island struck. Baghdad hit. The Gulf bracing for energy war.
Day fourteen of Operation Epic Fury and Donald Trump opened the day by posting on Truth Social that it was a great honour to be killing Iranians, that the US has unparalleled firepower and unlimited ammunition, and that Gulf states should watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. Hours later, a US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in western Iraq. Four crew members confirmed dead. Two more unaccounted for. The fourth US aircraft lost since the war began.Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued his first statement since assuming power. He did not appear on camera. He did not speak. A news anchor read his written message on state television while his photograph was displayed on screen behind her. He vowed vengeance. He said the Strait of Hormuz must remain closed as a lever of pressure. He told Gulf states to remove US military bases or keep taking Iranian fire. He said Iran has studied opening new fronts where the enemy has little experience.Hegseth responded at the Pentagon by declaring the Supreme Leader wounded and likely disfigured, hiding underground, and lacking legitimacy.Oil crossed one hundred dollars a barrel despite a record IEA reserve release and US sanctions on Russian oil being temporarily lifted. A French soldier was killed by a drone in Iraqi Kurdistan — the first European NATO fatality of the conflict. Two tankers were set ablaze near Basra in the first strikes on Iraqi territorial waters. Dubai's financial district took a hit. Three point two million Iranians are displaced. Six thousand targets have been struck. The navy is not yet ready to escort a single tanker through the Strait.Day fourteen. No off-ramps. No ceasefire. No end in sight.
Day thirteen of Operation Epic Fury and the question America had been avoiding for nearly two weeks finally got an answer. The Pentagon's preliminary investigation found that a United States Tomahawk cruise missile killed the children of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab. One hundred and sixty-five dead. Most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The strike happened because Central Command was working from satellite imagery thirteen years out of date. The school had been separated from the adjacent IRGC base since 2016. Nobody updated the target list.Trump spent two weeks blaming Iran. Then told reporters on Wednesday he did not know about the report. Republican Senator John Kennedy said it was a terrible, terrible mistake. Then added: the kids are still dead.While that story broke, Trump told Axios there was practically nothing left to bomb in Iran. Israel's defence minister said the war had no time limit. Iran's president demanded compensation and international guarantees as prerequisites for any ceasefire. Trump's own Middle East envoy, asked how the war ends, said he did not know.Three more ships were struck near the Strait of Hormuz. The IEA released a record four hundred million barrels of emergency oil. Iran withdrew from the FIFA World Cup. Major banks closed Gulf offices. And a Reuters investigation revealed the Pentagon had concealed that one hundred and fifty American troops had been wounded.
Day twelve of Operation Epic Fury and the Pentagon promised its most intense day of strikes yet. Then everything escalated at once. Iran laid naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz — exploiting a critical gap in American minesweeping capability. A drone struck the American diplomatic facility in Baghdad. A fire broke out at one of the Gulf's largest oil refineries in the UAE. And Iran's top national security official publicly warned Trump to be careful not to be eliminated himself.Defense Secretary Hegseth refused to say when the war would end, contradicting Trump's short-term excursion messaging from the day before. The Defense Intelligence Agency leaked an assessment that Iran moved its enriched uranium before the strikes began and the programme has only been set back by months — not years. The CIA immediately disputed it. Lebanon's president offered direct talks with Israel. Israel rejected them. Germany warned it has six weeks of gas reserves. South Korea activated fuel rationing for the first time since the 1970s. And the Trump administration quietly unlocked Russian oil exports to cope with the energy crisis from a war it is still fighting.Day twelve. The Pentagon called it the most intense day yet. Iran called it their heaviest operation since the war began. Both were right.
Day eleven of Operation Epic Fury and President Trump delivered the most contradictory set of signals of the entire conflict. Speaking to House Republicans at his Doral resort in Miami, he said the war would end pretty quickly and described it as a short-term excursion. Then at his first press conference since the strikes began, he said America had not won enough, that there was more to do, and that ultimate victory was the goal. He threatened to hit Iran twenty times harder if it tried to close the Strait of Hormuz. And Bloomberg reported that Trump is weighing the deployment of American special forces on the ground inside Iran to physically seize its stockpile of highly enriched uranium — because airstrikes alone cannot reach it.Iran's deputy foreign minister stated ceasefire conditions for the first time. China, Russia, and France have all contacted Iran about ending the war. Russia congratulated Mojtaba Khamenei on becoming Supreme Leader and reaffirmed unwavering support for Tehran. Putin offered Europe long-term Russian energy deals as gas prices nearly doubled. Canada's Prime Minister refused to rule out military participation. The G7 called for de-escalation without condemning the strikes. Human Rights Watch accused Israel of using white phosphorus in residential areas of Lebanon. Oil dropped from one hundred and ten to one hundred dollars after Trump's remarks but remains fifty-seven percent above pre-war levels. An eighth American service member was confirmed dead. And the conflict has now killed people from at least twelve countries.Day eleven. Trump says it is ending soon. But America's special forces may be heading into Iran.Operation Epic Fury day eleven, Trump special forces Iran ground invasion, Trump twenty times harder Hormuz, Iran ceasefire conditions deputy foreign minister, Russia congratulates Mojtaba Khamenei, white phosphorus Lebanon Human Rights Watch, oil prices one hundred dollars Iran war, breaking news podcast, geopolitics, Middle East war 2026.
Iran has fired more than two thousand drones at American military bases, Gulf states, and Israel since Operation Epic Fury began. But what exactly are these weapons. Where did they come from. How do they work. And how is America fighting back.This bonus episode covers the full story of Iran's drone arsenal from the beginning. The Shahed-136, the twenty thousand dollar one-way attack drone that costs America millions to intercept every single time. The jet-powered Shahed-238 designed to destroy the radar systems that stop the slower drones. The Mohajer reconnaissance drones that find the targets. The Karrar, the Arash, and the reverse-engineered derivatives of captured American stealth aircraft. The drone attrition trap that Iran spent decades designing and that America is now caught inside. The LUCAS programme, America's direct copy of the Shahed-136 now being used against Iran. Ukraine's four years of hard-won counter-drone expertise now being deployed in the Persian Gulf. And the layered defence strategy that America and its allies are building right now to close the gap.No technical background needed. Just everything you need to understand the weapon at the centre of this war.Iran drone arsenal explained, Shahed 136 explained, Iran Shahed drone Operation Epic Fury, LUCAS drone America copies Iran, drone attrition trap explained, THAAD Patriot stockpile crisis, Ukraine drone experts Gulf, Iran drone war podcast, breaking news podcast, geopolitics, Middle East war 2026.
Day ten of Operation Epic Fury and the Islamic Republic made its most consequential decision since the revolution. The Assembly of Experts appointed Mojtaba Khamenei — son of the man killed by American and Israeli bombs ten days ago — as the third Supreme Leader in Iran's forty-seven year history. The revolution that overthrew a monarchy has become one.Every major Iranian institution pledged allegiance within hours. The IRGC vowed to obey until the last drop of their blood. Trump said if Mojtaba does not get approval from the United States he will not last long. Israel killed the man appointed to serve the incoming Supreme Leader before the announcement was even made. And Iran's Foreign Minister rejected any ceasefire on live American television.Oil hit one hundred and ten dollars a barrel. United States crude futures jumped twenty-five percent in a single morning. The Dow dropped more than one thousand points. South Korea capped fuel prices for the first time in thirty years. Seven Gulf oil states are weeks away from running out of storage capacity. The International Energy Agency signalled it may release strategic reserves. Qatar arrested an IRGC intelligence cell collecting targeting data on American military infrastructure on Qatari soil. A seventh American service member was confirmed dead. And the United Nations declared a major humanitarian emergency affecting twenty-five million people.Day ten. The son of the Supreme Leader is the Supreme Leader. And this war has no end in sight.Operation Epic Fury day ten, Mojtaba Khamenei Supreme Leader, Iran oil prices one hundred ten dollars, Iran dynastic succession, Trump Iran not last long, oil markets crash Iran war, South Korea fuel prices cap, UN humanitarian emergency Iran, breaking news podcast, geopolitics, Middle East war 2026.
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