Breaking News: US Strikes Iran
The Michael Knowles Show
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 141 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. I am Cabot Phillips. We are coming to you live from Daily Wire HQ for a special |
| 0:05.7 | breaking edition of Wired in Live. After months of growing tensions, speculation, and ultimately multiple |
| 0:12.1 | rounds of failed nuclear negotiations, the United States of America and Israel had begun a series of |
| 0:17.8 | widespread air strikes targeting Iran in what President Trump called |
| 0:21.8 | a, quote, massive and ongoing operation. |
| 0:24.7 | The Department of War has dubbed this operation, Epic Fury. |
| 0:28.5 | This story is rapidly developing. |
| 0:30.0 | We're going to be getting new updates by the second. |
| 0:32.3 | We'll bring you all of the latest news as it comes in. |
| 0:35.7 | But let's first start with what we know so far, and then we're going to get to some guests, |
| 0:39.3 | including Michael Knowles and other experts from the region. |
| 0:42.3 | President Trump announced this news early Saturday morning saying America will, quote, |
| 0:46.3 | never be threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran. |
| 0:50.3 | Again, we're still getting details, but it appears American strikes at the moment are focusing on Iranian nuclear sites, which the regime has worked to rebuild following Operation Midnight |
| 0:58.8 | Hammer, along with naval facilities. For their part, the Israeli military is reportedly going |
| 1:03.2 | after senior leadership within the regime. Their strikes have reportedly targeted top generals, |
| 1:08.7 | the country's president and armed forces chief of staff, |
| 1:11.5 | and even the Ayatollah himself. We're still waiting for news on whether any of those men have been |
| 1:15.7 | killed, but footage from Tehran shows smoke rising from a number of compounds that house the country's |
| 1:21.2 | senior leadership, including the presidential palace. According to New York Times, satellite imagery |
| 1:26.0 | appears to show that the Ayatollah's residence |
| 1:28.3 | has been completely destroyed. Again, we're still waiting for his whereabouts, but there are also |
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