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American Prestige

Special - The Israel-Iran War, Ep. 2 (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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For the full episode and access to all breaking news specials, subscribe now. Danny and Derek update us on what's been going on over the past few days between Israel and Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, Prestige Heads and welcome to American Prestige.

0:12.0

I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and Comrade Derek Davidson, and we felt

0:16.0

it necessary to give you an update on what's been going on between Israel and Iran.

0:20.0

If you haven't checked out

0:21.6

our special on it last week, please do so, and then we'll go from there. So Derek, we last

0:28.0

talked about this at the end of last week. So what has happened on Friday and over the weekend

0:34.3

with the attacks between Israel and Iran.

0:42.1

I mean, they've continued throughout the weekend,

0:49.1

Iran firing missiles and retaliation for,

0:56.0

I think when we talked to Seamus, the Iranians were just starting to retaliate. It was actually happening while we were talking to him on Friday,

1:00.0

that they were just starting to retaliate for the original Israeli attack.

1:05.0

And that back and forth has continued throughout the weekend.

1:09.0

The Israeli strikes have gotten, I think, more extensive, a little bit bolder.

1:19.0

This is due partly to the fact that they've degraded Iranian air defenses pretty severely,

1:25.5

not just in these first couple of rounds of strikes, but going

1:29.3

all the way back to the exchanges they had last year, they spent a fair amount of their attention

1:35.3

and energy on Iranian air defense units. So Iran's ability to interdict Israeli aircraft at this point is limited.

1:45.9

There are reportedly, it's not full air dominance over Iran,

1:52.2

but the Israelis do have opened up paths like channels that their aircraft can go through

1:57.8

where they're pretty safe from any sort of air defense risks. So they're

2:02.0

able to get move around the country pretty freely as long as they stay in these safe spots or these

2:11.5

soft spots in the coverage. They were able to bomb the city of Mashhad over the weekend.

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