America First (unless Iran...)

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Vox's Josh Keating and author Vali Nasr explain what bombing Iran won’t accomplish. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact checked by Laura Bullard and Denise Guerra, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Further reading: Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History by Vali Nasr. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Iranians protesting US attacks on nuclear sites in Iran. Photo by Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This weekend, the current president of the United States did something no former president of the United States has ever done.
0:07.0	He bombed Iran.
0:08.0	And I want to just thank everybody and in particular, God.
0:13.0	For a lot of people, it was giving Timu George W. Bush, but the vice president had a counter argument.
0:19.0	But the difference is that back then, we had dumb presidents,
0:23.4	and now we have a president who actually knows
0:25.5	how to accomplish America's national security objectives.
0:28.2	But are these America's national security objectives?
0:31.2	Because most Americans aren't interested in bombing Iran.
0:35.0	And certainly most Americans don't want a war with Iran, but it sounds
0:39.0	like the president might.
0:41.0	Truth Social. It's not politically correct to use the term regime change, but if the current
0:47.1	Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be a regime change?
0:54.0	Miga!
0:55.2	Where do we go from here on Today Explained?
0:59.7	I made you think you shrie.
1:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
1:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
1:06.4	We were liars.
1:07.3	A new series on Prime Video.
1:09.4	We were happy.
1:10.5	We wanted for nothing.
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