How Iran Is Dividing the MAGA Base
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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This episode: voting correspondent Miles Parks, national security correspondent Greg Myre, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:27.8 | I'm at the barn sitting inside, just brought in 10 horses from the big heat we're having today, |
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| 0:46.8 | 12.09 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18th, 2025. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, |
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| 1:01.7 | What a nice life. |
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| 1:08.7 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm Miles Parks. |
| 1:10.3 | I cover voting. I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security.. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security. And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent. |
| 1:23.4 | And today on the show, Iran, where the Middle East conflict goes from here and what United States involvement could look like. |
| 1:28.9 | So, Greg, this is a rapidly evolving situation in the Middle East. Where do things stand right now? |
| 1:35.9 | Yeah, Miles, we've had a six straight night of bombing going back and forth between Israel and Iran. |
| 1:46.9 | The Israeli airstrikes have continued in Iran. Iranian missiles fired at Israel. So I think a couple of developments though are becoming more clear as this goes on. |
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