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In this episode, we're speaking to investigative journalist Nilo Tabrizi.

She'll be talking to us about the new war that Israel and America and now several other countries are involved in against Iran.

She talks to us about the death of the dictator Hamini, what that means for the rest of the country,

and also about the many civilians who have already been killed in the bombing on the country.

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If you don't mind, it might be the best thing to start with might be a kind of rough

timeline of events because a lot has happened very quickly, if that's possible at all.

Of course. So Operation Epic Fury, which is, which I did not choose the name, it started on,

just want to make that very clear. It started Saturday, February 28th. So this was an operation

that the U.S. described it was

undertaking with Israel and its partners. And at first, the message was for regime change.

I believe Trump even made a statement that said, Iranians, this is your opportunity to go out

there. And very early, you know, strikes started. Now, these strikes were different from the

Israeli and U.S. strikes from the, from the summer that we saw. You know, we've, many people in the

open source community, many reporters, we have been, you know, thinking it's a near certainty that

the U.S. and possibly Israel would strike again. That's because for weeks, there's been a ton of buildup of vessels and aircraft and all of these things that so much was brought in the Persian Gulf that it's not just for show once you, you know, all this equipment was amassed. So people had been waiting for this. And many of us thought it would be similar to the summer where these strikes

would occur, you know, while Iranians were sleeping. But in fact, it was different. These strikes

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