Ex-CIA Spy: The Real Reason the Iran War Started
EverydaySpy Podcast
Andrew Bustamante
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Project Hail Mary is an extraordinary cinematic experience. |
| 0:03.8 | You're a great scientist, Dr. Grace. |
| 0:05.5 | The world is counting on you. |
| 0:06.8 | Starring Ryan Gosling. |
| 0:08.3 | So I met an alien. |
| 0:09.7 | Two worlds, one impossible mission. |
| 0:12.3 | We're gonna save the stars. |
| 0:13.7 | Project Hail Mary. |
| 0:14.8 | Amaze, amaze, amaze. |
| 0:16.1 | Seat first March 14th and 15th in Cinemas Everywhere, March 19th. |
| 0:20.0 | Iranian war has kicked off. It is, I think, full-fledged at this point. |
| 0:24.5 | Now, I think a lot of people are getting the analysis on Iran wrong. They either get |
| 0:29.6 | sucked into the Israel question of whether we're just being puppet mastered or they're |
| 0:35.4 | buying into the propaganda around the nuclear threat. |
| 0:39.6 | If we want to get below the propaganda, what's really going on in Iran? You know, it's such a |
| 0:44.0 | great question. And the best place to start when I felt myself conflicted by the same two narratives, |
| 0:50.0 | right? The Israel's in charge narrative and the WMD narrative, which is a funny narrative |
| 0:54.5 | because we've been there before. |
| 0:57.0 | I was asking myself the same question. |
| 0:59.3 | How do I get deeper than this? |
| 1:00.7 | And when I was at CIA, I remember that every year we have to create a national threat |
| 1:06.6 | assessment at CIA that then feeds up to the ODNI, the office of the director of national |
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