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Hello, everybody. It's Monday, June 16th, and we've got some choppo for you.

On today's episode, Felix and I are joined by our good friend Seamus Malikov Zeli, who is back.

And Seamus, all I've got to say is it's been quite a weekend. And you were the first person we wanted to have on to talk about war with Iran.

So I just like to start with Thursday evening right after we got done recording with Pentejo time.

I checked the headlines and I was like, well, that episode was certainly timely.

Let's just start with Thursday evening.

Israel launched what they're calling a preemptive strike on Iran.

They targeted Tehran, a nuclear site.

And Seamus, what can we say about the events of Thursday night?

What is your assessment of what happened on Thursday and then like the aftermath?

I mean, nothing has been seen on this scale since the war with Saddam, since the war with Iraq.

And even then, nothing like this happened during that war. The idea that the entire top military brass could be taken out in just one go.

I don't think was anticipated by many outside observers.

Even I didn't anticipate that they would go all out in that opening salvo.

I mean, they took out the chief of staff of the armed forces, the deputy chief of staff,

the commander chief of the IRGC, multiple different nuclear scientists, and then killed more

nuclear scientists yesterday in car bomb attacks that were set off at the exact same time

that there was a massive barrage of airstrikes against Tehran.

I think everybody knew that the Mossad had penetrated Iran greatly, even more so than any other

country.

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