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That's kind of conversation to your soul.

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Between your soul and the night. Hello, Hello, prestige heads, and welcome to American. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davison.

And we're very excited to welcome to the podcast today. Shamis Malakavsili. Shamus is a journalist and writer.

And we've invited him to talk about the war in and with Iran. And we're going to get into more analytical issues in a second.

But Derek, I feel like we should update people on what's happened since we released our special yesterday.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini appears to,

and not appears his has been assassinated.

So, Derek, what happened and what do we know with that operation?

Yeah, we were speculating yesterday because the Israelis were saying that they believed that he was dead.

But there was no confirmation of that.

There is confirmation at this point.

The Iranian government has already has admitted it, acknowledged it. They've

had media reports about it. There have been rallies already in Tehran, at least. I don't know

about elsewhere in Iran-Shameas, you can fill in what I'm not getting here. But yeah, he's definitely

dead along with, I think Donald Trump said, 47 other Iranian leaders have been killed in this action so far. I don't know how he's defining leader. So he didn't, you know, he's obviously not going to give a list of the 48 people he says are leaders he says are dead so I really don't know

the full the full range of that there have been a number of military commanders killed

some civilian leaders I don't think they've gotten any of the other like a masut Peseskian I think is

still alive although there was some speculation about him as well.

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