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We Saw the Devil: Unfiltered Political Analysis

From Diplomacy to War: How the Iran Nuclear Deal Collapse Led to 2026

We Saw the Devil: Unfiltered Political Analysis

We Saw the Devil

True Crime, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.2984 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Note: This episode was recorded the evening of Monday, March 2, 2026. The situation is changing quickly, so some details may have developed further since recording. A new episode is dropping this evening 3/4 with an update. 

How did the United States and Iran go from nuclear diplomacy to open war? In this episode of We Saw the Devil, Robin walks through the timeline that led to the 2026 US–Iran conflict. From the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) to Operation Epic Fury, she breaks down the decisions, escalations, and failed diplomacy that pushed two countries toward direct conflict. Because wars rarely start with the first bomb. They usually start years earlier.

In This Episode:
  • The roots of US–Iran tension, from the 1953 coup to the 1979 Iranian Revolution
  • What the JCPOA nuclear deal actually did
  • Why the US leaving the deal in 2018 changed the trajectory
  • Iran’s proxy network across the Middle East
  • The 2025 protests inside Iran and the violent crackdown that followed
  • The diplomatic breakdown leading into 2026
  • Operation Epic Fury and the strike campaign against Iran
  • Iran’s retaliation across the region, including Israel, Lebanon, and Gulf states
  • The growing risk of a wider Middle East war and energy crisis

Keywords: US Iran war 2026, Iran nuclear deal collapse, JCPOA explained, Operation Epic Fury, US strikes Iran 2026, Iran Israel conflict, Iran retaliation Israel, Hezbollah Israel war, Middle East war 2026, US Iran conflict timeline, why the US bombed Iran, Iran nuclear program crisis, Strait of Hormuz crisis, global oil prices war, Iran protests 2025 crackdown, Iran proxy network Hezbollah Hamas Houthis, Lebanon Israel escalation, Gulf state missile attacks Iran, US foreign policy Iran conflict, geopolitics Middle East war analysis







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Transcript

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0:00.0

47 years. That's how long the United States and Iran have been circling each other like two drunks in a parking lot.

0:09.8

All bark, no teeth, for the most part, until Saturday, February 28, 26. The teeth came out.

0:17.9

And now it's not a parking lot anymore. It's just a large crime scene that stretches from Beiru to Dubai and the people bleeding the most are the ones who are just trying to walk past it.

0:27.4

We are now in day three. Six American service members are dead. Iran's supreme leader, the most powerful man in a country of 85 million, is dead.

0:38.9

At least 555 Iranians are dead across 131 cities.

0:44.2

11 people dead in Israel.

0:46.5

Nine of them killed when a missile slammed into a synagogue shelter.

0:49.9

That included three teenagers.

0:52.0

52 people are dead in Lebanon because Hezbollah just opened a brand new front that didn't exist just 48 hours ago.

0:59.3

Dubai, Dubai, the city that turned sand into a skyline, has smoke curling around it.

1:07.3

The U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait was hit.

1:10.4

Kuwait shot down three of our own jets by accident.

1:14.3

Qatar Energy just halted all liquefied natural gas production. No timeline for resumption, by the way,

1:20.6

and European gas prices surged 40% in a single day. And the man who swept into office on America first, make America great again,

1:31.7

no more forever wars, stood in the eastern of the White House this morning and told the country

1:37.2

this would take four to five weeks. But he's prepared to, quote, go far longer than that. So here's the question no one in Washington

1:47.1

wants to answer honestly. How did we get here? Not the press briefing version that we've been getting,

1:53.5

not the cable news cry on version, not the talking points, you know, Uncle Bob is copy pasting

1:59.7

from Freedom Eagle over on Facebook,

2:02.5

one of his far right groups.

2:03.9

I want to know the actual bipartisan trail of broken promises, failed diplomacy,

2:11.2

legitimate grievances, and all of the miscalculations that put American pilots over Tehran

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