Trump weighs ground operations in Iran.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Potential ground operations in Iran. On Saturday, The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon is planning for weeks of ground operations in Iran. According to defense officials, current plans are focused on targeted raids by Special Operations forces and infantry troops. President Donald Trump has not decided whether to approve ground operations, but reports from the past week indicate that the Pentagon is developing options for a “final blow,” which could combine troop deployments with an escalated bombing campaign.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:11.0 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place |
| 0:23.3 | we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of |
| 0:27.3 | my take. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. |
| 0:29.8 | It is Monday, March 30th. |
| 0:31.4 | We are back from Spring Break. |
| 0:33.5 | I spent Spring Break actually moving. |
| 0:36.5 | My wife and I bought our first ever home, which I'm super thrilled about. And I'm no longer in Philadelphia, which I'm sad about. I miss and love Philly. It's the area I grew up in. But I crossed the river into Jersey. Not a huge fan of really talking publicly about where exactly I live, |
| 0:57.1 | given the climate we all exist in. But I'm in a beautiful new home in the Burbs, which has been |
| 1:04.3 | really fun. Actually, you might be writing about that soon. I have some thoughts about what the |
| 1:09.9 | experience has been like just transitioning from |
| 1:12.5 | 18 years living in kind of various U.S. cities to dropping down into the burbs here in New Jersey |
| 1:19.5 | now. But anyway, I'm getting my studio situation figured out at home. So if the audio is a little |
| 1:25.9 | rough today, I apologize for that. I think it'll sound |
| 1:28.2 | good. We got John Law, the famous John Law is our producer, and he'll make me sound good. But some |
| 1:34.0 | stuff to navigate still as the transition takes place. So appreciate your patience on the audio |
| 1:39.9 | side. But we're back from spring break. And there's a lot to catch up on. So I'm going to hand |
| 1:45.6 | it over to John to break down today's main topics, to share some of the news we miss while we |
| 1:50.6 | are gone. And then we're going to talk about the Iran War and the updates, and it's going to |
| 1:55.7 | be really interesting. All right, John, take it away. |
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