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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 an update on the war in Iran. But before we do, produce, consider going to AmericanPestigepod.com, subscribing to the show either at the monthly level or at the annual level. If you subscribe at the annual

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Derek, let's start with the state of the war in Iran.

I guess the best place to start with this would be the Israeli attack over the weekend on the fuel depots outside of Tehran, which were devastating to the city.

They sent toxic black sludge into the air, set the oil depots on fire spewing thick smoke that hung over the city for over a day.

I don't know the extent to which it's cleared up by now,

but then a lot of the toxins that were released into the air proceeded to rain down in an acidic rain, if you will,

that's on top of just oil that spewed out of the depots themselves

and the explosions and landed all over the city, fires, just sheer devastation.

We were told that these were Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities, fuel depots,

which makes them ostensibly a military target,

and yet the effect of the strike was basically chemical warfare on the people of Tehran.

So that's where we seem to be at this point.

I think what you're seeing, and it's hard to track because news doesn't come out of Iran very easily.

And of course, the Israelis and the U.S. government are spinning things the way that they want to.

But what you're seeing, I think, is an exhaustion of easy military targets and a turn toward more civilian targets as this has gone on.

There was an apartment complex in Tehran that I assume the Israelis, I think the Israelis have been more active around Tehran than the U.S. has been hit overnight that killed somewhere

in the neighborhood of 40 people. The death toll, I want to get the most accurate figure here,

but the death toll was approaching 1,500 in Iran, and that's just what has been able to be counted so far.

I'm going to look at Al Jazeera here.

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