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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Emergency update: US and Israel strike Iran; Khamenei reported dead - with Amos Harel

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

News, Yonit Levi, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Jews, Religion & Spirituality, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, Israel Podcast, Middle East, Jonathan Freedland, Documentary

4.7770 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan is joined by military analyst Amos Harel to assess the latest Israeli and US strikes against Iran — and what may come next. Together they examine the logic behind the operations, the degree of coordination between Jerusalem and Washington, and how Iran is likely to respond next. They also ask the harder questions now hanging over the region: whether this marks a turning point for the Iranian regime itself, how far escalation could go, and what the strikes reveal about the shifting balance of power in the Middle East.

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0:00.0

This is an emergency episode of Unholy. I'm Jonathan Friedland, usually in London.

0:06.2

Yonit is on air broadcasting on Israel's Channel 12, as she has been for well over 12 hours.

0:13.0

From 8 o'clock in the morning, Israel time. It is now about 10, 15 p.m. Israel time. She's been on

0:20.5

air throughout on this very dramatic day in which

0:24.8

which began with an Israeli, apparently his joint Israeli U.S. attack on Iran with Iranian response

0:32.8

directed at Israel and elsewhere in the region. As we speak now, some more dramatic developments,

0:39.8

Reuters reporting that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanai is dead and that his body

0:49.7

has been found reports that even there is a photograph, that that has been seen by Israel's

0:55.8

Prime Minister. It follows comments from Benjamin Nathaniel saying that there were growing signs

1:01.4

that Khamanai is no longer with us. That came in a whole series of comments from the

1:07.2

Israeli Prime Minister addressing the courageous Iranian people and saying that these

1:12.5

strikes launched by Israel, joined by the US, will help the Iranian people unshackle themselves from

1:18.8

tyranny, that this was a once-in-a-generation chance to overthrow the Iranian regime. Donald Trump

1:26.3

in the US has spoken to leaders of Saudi Arabia,

1:30.3

Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and also NATO allies. And saying to Axios that this thing could be

1:41.8

over in two or three days or it could, in his words, go long.

1:48.4

Uncertainty over all of that.

1:50.2

Well, who better to pick our way through all these developments than longtime friend of the podcast?

1:55.9

Ha Aretz is military analyst Amos Harrell.

1:59.8

Amos, it's been more than 12 hours of very, very dramatic

2:04.3

developments, ones that people in the region have been preparing for for some time. Just tell us

2:10.2

how this day is unfolding and what's been happening. So this has been for quite a few days. There

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