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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | Iran Won't Back Down From This War!

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Don sits down with journalist and commentator Ahmed Baba to break down the rapidly escalating war with Iran and the devastating human toll it is taking. They examine the atrocities emerging from the conflict, the growing fears of a prolonged war, and the reality that Iran’s new leadership is signaling it has no intention of backing down. How long could this war last? And what happens if neither side is willing to step back? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And I'm Ed Baba and I are back.

0:14.8

Two brothers talking.

0:15.8

Let's talk about this girl school thing.

0:18.2

This is turning into a real quagmire because the new they look we know we

0:22.6

talked about there's no justification for this war every word every time it comes out of their mouths

0:27.3

it's some different excuse um when this girl school hit which was like the first or the second day

0:32.8

that we were in this iran from what i'm seeing from the new york times reporting apparently was around

0:37.0

the same time as a Supreme Leader strike. Okay. And so you had these 175 people killed at this

0:45.2

school, but mostly, pardon me, mostly elementary school girls. And now the new Supreme

0:53.5

leader who's even more of a hardliner

0:55.2

than his father who was killed is saying he's going to avenge their deaths. And this is going to be

1:00.0

one of the main points of revenge. This is a quagmire. It's a quagmire. It's an atrocity.

1:08.0

It's inexcusable because, you know, like you said right at the top, the war had no justification. They have all these shifting justifications. They talk about an in a minute threat. They shifted all of it. And then right out the gate, you have all these military analysts talking about how successful this strike was because it took out the Supreme Leader and those levels of leadership. Within that same period of time, they struck that school and they used 10 years outdated data,

1:36.5

was not updated.

1:38.1

The school had been changed to a school 10 years ago, right?

1:41.1

And they did not update that data.

1:42.6

So we need to know what broke down here.

1:44.8

And this comes after defense secretary Pete Hexeth has said, no more rules of engagement.

1:50.2

No more. He says, you know, we need more lethality, not tepid legality. Right. So what happened

1:55.5

here that made them make this atrocious error? And why isn't there more universal pushback?

2:02.0

Because this is something that there's no excuse and everyone should be up in arms about it.

2:07.4

Well, it's, at every single turn, the distraction that Trump sets up from the Epstein files becomes something else. Everything is a distraction from the distraction from the distraction from a distraction. And each of them, but they just keep going because I think that he's neutered the media. He's trying to kill independent journalists, right? Jail independent journalists like me. And because we can't be bought.

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