Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94. My name's Andrew Hunter-Murray, and I'm here in the Eyes War Room with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen and Ian Heslop. Very glad that you're all here today. Ian, I know you've flown in at some expense from Dubai.

Expense to the tax payer, obviously.

We're here to discuss what on earth is going on helen how did this happen a very good question and one to which we still do not after several days have an answer

well we've got quite a lot of answers well yes we've got a panoply of different answers various explanations were offered trump seemed to have been on phone calls with half of the US press court over the previous weekend, and he gave a range of ideas.

Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, came out and said something which might have been accidentally have been true and was therefore he was immediately had to backtrack on, which was the idea that Israel were going to do strikes on Iran, which they knew Iran would respond to, and so therefore America was preempting that. But that's obviously a very controversial thing to say, you know, that the world's greatest superpower is being dragged into a war by a nation of 8 million people. So he then had to pretend that wasn't what he'd said. And one of those kind of great flat denials that the US administration really

specialise in when they go no we didn't and then they play the clip and they oh yeah you did okay

so know what the answer is that nobody nobody really knows I mean they did last weekend they were

talking about regime change which they've got so Ali Kaminet is now dead. His son, at the time of recording, is wounded but alive, according to that.

Not a big change then.

Well, I think it's a significant change because you now have a supreme leader who you murdered

his father, his wife and his child.

So he'll have more motivation for reform and reaching out to the West, I would have thought.

Another success mission accomplished.

Yeah, right. But also, so, you know, there's been all these things about how they want Iranian protesters to rise up and capitalize on the protests.

The trouble is that it comes up to several weeks of thousands upon thousands of them being slaughtered or imprisoned by the regime.

The other thing that they've done is obviously the US defunded all of its overseas broadcast operations,

including, I believe, one in Farsi, because that was sort of woke madness that just allowed people just to sit on very big cynicures.

And the new Supreme Leader is called Mosh Tababa, which is the Farsi 4 chosen.

So when they were having the meeting, I wonder what I think we're going to choose.

But also in his CV, which obviously I've been reading recently to try and catch up,

it said he had a very, very influential teacher that formed a lot of his views called

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