News - Iran Strike Delayed, Biden Suppressed Gaza Aid, Nigeria Militant Attack

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

News, History, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and hear all of our episodes! Join the Discord (subscribers get more channels). Danny and Derek are still in talks with The Muppets' people about an appearance, so we'll keep things buttoned up for now. This week: The U.S. and Iran hold talks in Oman, averting an U.S. strike for the moment (0:31); in Gaza, Israeli strikes kill dozens while Rafah reopens under tight restrictions amid concerns over “slow motion” displacement (5:58); the Trump administration’s Gaza “reconstruction” effort raises more red flags (8:48); Reuters reports that the Biden administration suppressed a USAID memo on Gaza’s humanitarian conditions with potential legal implications (12:07); Syria’s government and the SDF announce a new agreement to integrate SDF forces and administrators into the Syrian state (14:39); Sudan’s military claims it has opened a road into besieged Kadugli as militants make gains elsewhere (17:44); Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is assassinated in Zintan, Libya (20:57); in Nigeria’s Kwara State, gunmen kill roughly 170 people in an allegedly jihadist-linked attack (23:44); U.S.-Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi yield little on ending the war, but Washington and Moscow agree to keep honoring New START’s terms (25:29); Pakistan launches a massive counterinsurgency campaign in Balochistan with the death toll approaching 300 (28:21); Trump touts a major U.S.-India trade framework, but key details remain unclear (30:12); Trump signs a new Cuba executive order increasing pressure around oil supplies (33:16); the U.S. president also hosts Colombia’s Gustavo Petro after recent threats (35:33); and the State Department holds a critical minerals conference as Trump announces “Project Vault” and Japan tests environmentally risky deep-sea mining (37:15). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.3	That's kind of conversation to your soul. Hello, prestige heads, and welcome. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson,
1:10.0	and we are excited to bring you the news
1:12.5	Derek let's start with these Iran-US negotiations which are set for the day everyone is listening
1:18.5	which is Friday uh it's been a real roller coaster over the past week like as of last Friday
1:25.4	the the likelihood of US a US attack on Irans attack on iran was so high drop site
1:30.5	was reporting the data actually the the trump administration had actually notified uh they said a key
1:35.5	u.s ally in the middle east and an arab country i don't know which one that an attack might
1:41.0	come as soon as sunday so they were they seem seemed to have been on the brink of something.
1:48.3	But by Sunday, Trump, Donald Trump had told reporters that there were negotiations underway or
1:56.4	discussions underway between U.S. and Iranian officials. The Iranians seemed to confirm that, that they were talking,
2:02.6	not about anything substantive.
2:04.6	They were talking about the possibility of having substantive negotiations.
2:08.6	And Trump, Sunday came and went,
2:11.6	Trump started to talk more about diplomacy than about an attack.
2:16.6	And those discussions then continued over the next few days
2:21.3	until finally they started to coalesce around what looked like
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