Good evening. It's Friday, June 13th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday

through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Today's most important news is obvious. Israel last night launched a major military assault on Iran,

targeting residential buildings in Tehran, where military commanders and nuclear physicists live with their families, as well as bombing multiple nuclear facilities throughout the country.

Triumphalous rhetoric flooded American-Israeli discourse almost immediately until just a little bit ago when a barrage of Iran's ballistic and hypersonic missiles began hitting Tel Aviv, Jerusalem,

and other major population centers. Escalation seems virtually inevitable at this point. The question

of the level of escalation, always the most dangerous question when a new war has started, is most

certainly yet to be determined. Then there's a question of the role of the United States and President Trump and all of this.

News reports from both the U.S. and Israeli media suggests this morning that Trump was working hand-in-hand with the Israelis to pretend that he was still optimistic about a diplomatic resolution with Tehran, but did so only as a ruse to convince the Iranians that Trump intended to

restrain Israel and thus lure Iran into a false sense of security when, in fact, Trump was

not only greenlighting the attack, but actively working with the Israelis to launch it.

President Trump's own statements today proudly boasting of the success of the attack, along

with his own concrete actions such as ordering U.S. military assets into position to yet again

defend Israel, strongly bolster those reports and clearly indicate a direct U.S. involvement

in this war between Israel and Iran, a U.S. involvement that already exists and will almost

certainly continue to grow over the next few days and perhaps few weeks and even months.

We'll examine all the latest developments as well as speak to the American Iranian professor

Mohamed Morandi, who is in Tehran, obviously heard and witnessed, a lot of what happened in Tehran,

but also has some unique analysis from his role as an American, Iranian scholar of foreign policy.

We will then speak with two scholars from the Cato Institute, one of the very few things in the United States was as long counseled restraint and non-interventionism.

In U.S. foreign policy, Justin Logan and John Hoffman are both scholars with Cato.

They have followed the Iran-Israel-US dynamic for quite some time, and they'll speak to us about

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