The U.S. attacks Iran.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday morning, the United States and Israel carried out airstrikes against Iran, killing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other leaders. President Donald Trump said the ongoing mission, called Operation Epic Fury, will target Iran’s nuclear facilities, military capabilities and regime leaders, adding that Iranian citizens should prepare to take over the government. The attack marks the Trump administration’s second operation against Iran, following airstrikes targeting the country’s nuclear facilities in June 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | from executive producer isaac saul this is tangle good morning good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place |
| 0:23.9 | where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little |
| 0:27.2 | bit of my take. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. |
| 0:29.4 | It is Monday, March 2nd. |
| 0:31.8 | There's a lot going on, obviously. |
| 0:34.6 | We have begun a war in Iran. I think some people are calling it an operation. I don't think that's fair. I don't think this is a strike. I think we are in this probably for a few weeks based on what the president's saying. Maybe it'll end up being shorter. I don't know. |
| 0:54.5 | But U.S. service members are dying. |
| 0:57.4 | Iranians are dying. |
| 0:59.1 | People in Israel, Iran, UAE, Kuwait, they're dying. |
| 1:06.2 | There's a regional war breaking out that we, along with Israel, started in many respects. |
| 1:13.0 | I mean, this is a war of aggression. |
| 1:15.0 | Preemptive aggression, maybe, but a war of aggression. |
| 1:18.3 | So we're going to talk about what's going on there. |
| 1:21.6 | Tonight, at 8 p.m. Eastern, I'm going to host a YouTube live stream to just chat about the situation. We've been |
| 1:29.7 | getting inundated with questions from audience members. I figure this would be a fun way to answer |
| 1:35.1 | them during a moment where things are not fun. So I'm going to come back down to the office. |
| 1:42.2 | I'm going to turn the camera on, probably pour myself a tall glass of bourbon and chat with you guys. And we might try and bring a guest or two on. We're trying to work on that now just to spice things up a little bit. But mostly it's an opportunity for us to spend some time together and experiment a bit with the YouTube platform. So I'm looking forward |
| 2:01.2 | to that. Also, I want to give you a heads up. I'm hoping at some point in the future, near future, |
| 2:07.9 | to do a YouTube video about this or to do a podcast about it. I might do more than one. |
| 2:17.8 | It's about what's happening in the Big Ben region of West Texas, |
| 2:21.2 | where President Donald Trump has resurrected his plans for a border wall. |
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