U.S. and Israel Strike Iran

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🗓️ 1 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In a live Dispatch Podcast, Steve Hayes and Michael Warren were joined by Dispatch contributing writer and retired Army Special Forces officer Mike Nelson as well as Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood to break down the U.S. and Israeli military campaign against the Iranian regime and explain what might come next. Watch the livestreamed converation on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/live/PmkW7QDgpDs?si=cd-LNKvv6YctKOG6Show Notes:—Graeme Wood: An Iranian Network Is Ready to Act—Mike Nelson: There’s a Case for Striking Iran. President Trump Needs to Make It. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good Saturday evening, everybody. Welcome to Dispatch Live.
0:18.7	Happy to be with you this evening to talk about the U.S. and Israeli strikes on the Iranian regime.
0:25.6	I have a terrific panel joining me tonight.
0:27.6	Mike Warren, known probably to most of you, senior editor at the Dispatch, Mike Nelson.
0:36.6	How should I describe you, Mike Nelson.
0:39.5	How should I describe you, Mike? Former CEO of the Institute for the Study of War, Special Forces Badass, Dispatch Contributor,
0:48.0	moderate blast being the greatest distinction.
0:51.2	And Graham Wood, one of my favorite contemporary journalists
0:57.0	writes for the Atlantic very happy to have you all along let's jump in right away on the
1:03.6	news and Mike Nelson I'll start with you we saw a series of strikes today.
1:11.6	And I'm wondering if you can give us any insight.
1:15.6	We've been talking about this for a while.
1:16.6	This has been anticipated for a long time.
1:19.6	What if you can give us any insight on sort of what happened today,
1:25.6	why this happened now, and what, if anything, we can learn from
1:31.4	the targets that were struck and the people who were eliminated?
1:38.1	Well, what happened, I think, in the last, I guess, 36 hours since the piece came out saying that we needed to lay
1:45.8	out a case for war. While there was a myriad of reasons that we could strike Iran, that the
1:52.0	president needed to make a compelling case. And now we saw the president about midnight last
1:57.1	night release his statement announcing the beginning of Operation Epic Fury and the
2:02.5	strikes on Iran and laying out a little bit of the reasoning for it, although he was,
2:08.1	there's still some vagueness to some of the understanding. Now, in between Midnight Hammer,
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