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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 Davison,

and we are not excited to bring you terrible news about the United States in Israel bombing Iran.

Just so everyone know, Derek is on the road, so the audio quality is going to be a little different,

but producer Jake

will make it excellent, but we obviously felt that we needed to talk about this. So Derek,

let's just start with the brass tax. I mean, there's a lot of things I want to say, but what do

we know so far, even though it's obviously early days in a campaign that might last a while,

might not, you never know what Trump. Yeah, I mean, it was somewhat of a surprise.

Well, I don't want to say it was a surprise because, yeah, it's Trump and he just decides

things on a whim.

He got on true social in the middle of the night, basically, and released a statement saying

that the U.S. had, in middle of the night, you know, U.S. time, eastern time announcing that the U.S. and Israel were attacking Iran.

He suggested that this was the start of a regime change operation.

You know, we've seen reports about, you know, the administration's considering a small-scale,

low-level, you know, one- considering a small scale low level you know one and not one off attack to try and you know give some leverage to the u.s and negotiating process with iran

versus a an expanded war to take out the Islamic republic take out alie company and company

uh from his comments it certainly sounds like that's the goal that this is a regime change war.

Now it's not about negotiations, it's not about leverage.

It's about eliminating the Iranian government altogether.

We've seen a number of attacks across Iran. I think at this point,

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