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American Prestige

Special - Iran War: Strait of Hormuz, Regional Escalation, Casualty Figures (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

News, History, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe now for the full episode and access to all of our specials. Danny and Derek give an update on the conflict in Iran. They talk about the overall state of the war, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, casualty figures across multiple countries, the prospect of a ground invasion, the state of Iran’s leadership, the strike on South Pars and its effects on Gulf energy infrastructure, Iran’s attacks on Israel, Israeli public support for the war, and polling on American support for the intervention. Watch our video exclusive with Samuel Moyn about Jürgen Habermas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, Prestige Heads and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davidson, and we're here to give you a new special on Iran.

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But before we do, very quickly, for those who haven't yet, please consider becoming annual subscribers.

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You'll save a couple of bucks at the $50 level. And if you subscribe at $60 or more,

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you will also get a digital subscription to the Nation magazine where I recently published a piece

0:43.6

on George Packer. And I've got another piece forthcoming soon. Go to Americanpristicepod.com

0:51.5

for that. Just click on Join now and otherwise it should be pretty easy.

0:56.1

We've also got a new series coming that will be available to annual subscribers without any

1:01.2

additional fee on Marxism in America. So that might be of interest too. All right, Derek,

1:08.0

let's jump in. And go watch the Yergen Habermas video. Oh, yeah.

1:11.4

Oh, yeah.

1:12.0

I did a really interesting video with Samuel Moyne examining the legacy of Yergan Habermas,

1:19.2

and particularly how we talked a lot about how Habermas wound up and really embracing the unipolar moment of the 1990s.

1:25.8

So if you're interested in Habermas, why he is well known,

1:29.5

we go through that and also Moyne's criticisms of him, please check that out. And I also did

1:36.5

for people who haven't seen. And subscribe to the YouTube channel. We need people to subscribe to our

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YouTube channel. Yes, please subscribe to the YouTube channel

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and

1:45.2

I also did, I'm researching a new

1:48.0

piece for Harper's Magazine

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