Why the F#!@ Are We at War with Iran? with Reza Aslan
Factually! with Adam Conover
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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
What are we doing in Iran? No, seriously. Why? Call it what you will, but we’ve just gone to war for seemingly no reason whatsoever. In a bonus episode, Adam invites past guest Reza Aslan back on the show to make sense of what’s happening, how this will affect the people of Iran, and what this means on the world stage.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I don't know the truth. |
| 0:08.3 | I don't know the way. |
| 0:10.9 | I don't know what to think. |
| 0:13.6 | I don't know what to say. |
| 0:16.6 | Yeah, but that's all right. |
| 0:19.4 | That's okay. |
| 0:21.6 | I don't know anything. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello there. |
| 0:28.6 | Welcome to Factually. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Adam Conover. |
| 0:30.7 | Thank you so much for joining me on the show. |
| 0:32.6 | This is a special emergency episode of the podcast because you might have noticed that the United States is at war |
| 0:40.2 | all of a sudden. And, you know, there's a lot of different things you can call a military operation. |
| 0:45.0 | You can call it a limited strike on a target or whatever. But in looking at what the U.S. |
| 0:50.5 | and Israel are doing in Iran right now, it seems pretty fucking clear. Yeah, this is a fucking war. And it's a big one. We have deployed the largest U.S. military force |
| 0:59.3 | to the Middle East in decades. We have bombed thousands of Iranian targets. And we have |
| 1:04.5 | assassinated the country's entire chain of command, including their supreme leader, |
| 1:09.8 | Ayatollah Khomeini. In other words, yeah, |
| 1:12.4 | it's war. And, you know, the rationales for the war are changing by the day, distressingly. |
| 1:19.4 | They are shifting as we speak. And right now, there are a lot of open questions. We don't know |
| 1:24.8 | how long this war will last. We don't know who's going to lead the country after it is over. |
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