Emergency Broadcast: US-Israeli War on Iran w/ Séamus Malekafzali

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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All we know about the US-Israeli war of aggression launched last night on the Iranian people, featuring Séamus Malekafzali. Read work by Séamus at https://www.seamus-malekafzali.com/ and follow him at https://x.com/Seamus_Malek VIDEOS + MERCH + SOCIALS + ARTICLES + EXCLUSIVE CONTENT :: https://empirefiles.tv/

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0:00.0	It's the morning of Friday, June 13th, and as activists are descending on Washington, D.C. to protest Trump's military parade, and as American troops are being illegally deployed against the righteous uprising, against lawlessness from ICE, there are also two high-level military meetings taking place today, both in the White
0:21.9	House and in Iran, planning the next stages set in motion by Israel's aggressive strikes on
0:26.6	Tehran, the first confirmed fatality of which being a child. Where could all this go? We're here to
0:32.5	talk about it in this emergency broadcast. Joining us to break it down is Seamus Malikovs Ali,
0:36.6	Iranian-American journalist
0:37.7	writing extensively at Substack, which we will link to in the description, as well as other outlets.
0:41.9	Thanks for joining us, Seamus, on such short notice.
0:44.4	It's all right. Thank you for having me.
0:47.3	Seamus, let's just start by talking about what exactly Israel did yesterday in Iran.
0:53.1	Who did they target? Who do you know has died so far? Because it's
0:58.0	pretty alarming waking up to see that the casualties have been, you know, it's about a hundred people
1:03.6	nearly, including many children. It seems pretty unprecedented, even though we know Israel has
1:09.1	been assassinating scientists and engineers
1:11.2	inside of Iran for decades, but it seems like the scale of this hasn't been seen for quite
1:15.5	a bit.
1:16.4	Something like this hasn't been seen on this scale since the war with Iraq in the 1980s.
1:24.2	I mean, during that period, there were many different ballistic missile attacks on the Capitol as well as other areas of Iran. But even then, nothing this targeted,
1:34.5	nothing with this level of success in decapitating major military commanders.
1:52.5	I mean, right now, it seems like the entire top brass of the Iranian military has been assassinated.
2:00.5	The chief of staff of the armed forces, Muhammad Bulgaria, has been killed. The chief of the aerospace force of the IRGC, Muhammad Boggeri, has been killed, the Chief of the Aerospace Force
2:02.3	of the IRGC, Haji Zadeh has been killed.
2:06.1	Commander Chief of the IRGC, Hossein Salomey,
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