Trump’s Dangerous Gamble In Iran
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Over the weekend, the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes that reportedly hit more than 2,000 targets across Iran. In response, Iran struck sites across the Middle East. What, exactly, is the United States doing in Iran, especially now that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed? Nahal Toosi, senior foreign affairs correspondent and columnist at POLITICO, lays out what’s likely to happen next and why it matters.
And in headlines, Senator Lindsey Graham insists regime change is not the goal in Iran, Democrats mostly oppose the war (with some notable exceptions), and someone struck it big in a prediction market gamble on when the U.S. would strike Iran.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, March 2nd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. |
| 0:07.0 | The show that is almost longing for the many, many press conferences and made-up reasonings of the early days of the Iraq War back in 2003. |
| 0:14.1 | When times were easy, I was 15, and then Secretary of State Colin Powell was waving a vial of fake anthrax in a meeting of the United Nations Security Council. |
| 0:23.3 | Memories. |
| 0:30.7 | On today's show, the U.S. and Israel strike Iran, prompting retaliation across the region, |
| 0:35.3 | and the GOP reacts to the war, it refuses to call a war. |
| 0:38.5 | We're recording our show at 5 p.m. Pacific time, and the situation is changing quickly. As of right now, |
| 0:44.1 | American and Israeli forces have reportedly launched air strikes and bombing runs on more than |
| 0:47.9 | 2,000 targets across Iran. According to the Iranian Red Crescent Society, more than 200 people |
| 0:53.8 | have been killed in the attacks. |
| 0:55.4 | Iranian state media reported that an Israeli strike on a girls' elementary school accounted for the majority of those deaths. |
| 1:01.3 | In response, Iran has launched retaliatory strikes on targets across the Middle East. |
| 1:05.5 | In a video message released on Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would continue for the foreseeable future. |
| 1:11.4 | Combat operations continue at this time in full force, and they will continue until all of our |
| 1:18.1 | objectives are achieved. |
| 1:19.5 | We have very strong objectives. |
| 1:22.7 | What are they? |
| 1:24.3 | We do not know. |
| 1:25.9 | The president also confirmed that three U.S. service members have been |
| 1:29.1 | killed following Iran's bombing of a base housing American troops in Kuwait. |
| 1:33.1 | We pray for the full recovery of the wounded and send our immense love and eternal gratitude to the |
| 1:40.0 | families of the fallen. And sadly, there will likely be more. Before it ends, that's the way it is, |
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