Epic Fury: The US-Iran War Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

To understand Operation Epic Fury you have to go back seventy-three years. Back to a CIA officer with a suitcase full of cash in Tehran. Back to the coup that toppled Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadek in 1953 and handed his oil fields back to the West. Back to the revolution of 1979, the hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq war, the Beirut bombing, Iran-Contra, September 11th, the axis of evil speech, the secret nuclear facilities at Nuh-tawnz and Arak, Stuxnet, the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, the JCPOA, Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear deal, maximum pressure, the shadow war between Iran and Israel, and the moment American intelligence confirmed Iran was two weeks away from a nuclear weapon.

This bonus episode covers the full seventy-three year history of the United States and Iran in a single factual and neutral briefing. No spin. No agenda. Just the history that every listener needs to understand why the bombs fell on February 28th, 2026.

If you have ever asked why Iran and America hate each other, this is the episode for you.

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Iran War Day 7. Trump declares he will personally choose Iran's next Supreme Leader. Iran threatens to strike Israel's Dimona nuclear facility. Kurdish forces mass at Iran's border. The Assembly of Experts bombed while electing a new Supreme Leader.

Operation Epic Fury entered its seventh day on Thursday March 5th 2026 with President Trump making the most explosive statement of the entire US Iran war. Trump told reporters the United States will choose Iran's next Supreme Leader alongside Iran, that frontrunner Mojtaba Khamenei is unacceptable, and that the entire operation was triggered because American intelligence confirmed Iran was just two weeks away from building a nuclear weapon. The IAEA had discovered hidden highly enriched uranium in Iran just one day before Operation Epic Fury began.

Iran's missile attacks across the Middle East have dropped by ninety percent. CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper confirmed Iran's navy has been wiped out and Iran's missile production facilities are being systematically demolished. The total financial cost of the US Iran war has now crossed five billion dollars — approximately one billion dollars every single day.

Iran threatened to strike Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor if the United States and Israel pursue regime change in Tehran. A senior Iranian cleric called for Trump's blood in a Friday sermon broadcast on Iranian state television. Kurdish forces are massing at Iran's northern border preparing a possible ground incursion into Iran — the first ground force to enter Iranian territory since the Iran Iraq war of the nineteen eighties. The Assembly of Experts was bombed by Israel while its members were in session electing a new Supreme Leader. A NATO member's air defenses fired on an Iranian ballistic missile over Turkish airspace. China deployed a special envoy to begin Middle East mediation. And beneath all the public defiance from Tehran, Iran's own intelligence operatives secretly reached out to the CIA about ending the US Iran war.

War powers resolutions in both the House and Senate failed, giving Trump full Congressional acquiescence to continue Operation Epic Fury indefinitely.

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Day six of Operation Epic Fury and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at the Pentagon podium and delivered one of the most striking military statements in recent American history. America is winning — decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy. The Iranian Air Force is no more. Built for nineteen ninety-six. Destroyed in twenty twenty-six. Twenty Iranian vessels have been sunk. Two thousand strikes have been carried out inside Iran — double the pace of Shock and Awe in Iraq in two thousand and three.

The death toll inside Iran has crossed one thousand and forty-five confirmed dead. The Iranian Navy frigate IRIS Dena was torpedoed and sunk by a United States submarine off the coast of Sri Lanka — the first torpedo attack by an American sub since the Second World War. The CIA is actively arming Kurdish rebel groups inside Iran. Spain was threatened with trade sanctions and reversed its refusal to allow use of its bases within twenty-four hours. France deployed the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. Greece deployed F-16s to Cyprus. Israel launched a ground incursion into southern Lebanon. Lebanon's government formally called on Hezbollah to disarm. And Iran's state television announced a new Supreme Leader is close to being chosen.

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Day five of Operation Epic Fury and the single most consequential development of the entire conflict so far has arrived. Iran has formally closed the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off one fifth of the world's daily oil supply. Trump has ordered the United States Navy to reopen it by force. Brent crude has surged above ninety dollars a barrel. QatarEnergy has halted liquefied natural gas production. Iraq has been forced to stop oil exports entirely.

The death toll inside Iran has risen to seven hundred and eighty-seven. The Minab school airstrike death toll has climbed to one hundred and sixty-eight children. A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tehran has been damaged. The United States Embassy in Riyadh was struck by Iranian drones. Hezbollah has declared open war. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned the hardest hits on Iran are yet to come. Trump refused to rule out ground troops. And behind closed doors, Steve Witkoff revealed exactly why the Geneva nuclear talks collapsed days before the bombs fell.

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It is day four of Operation Epic Fury and the scale of this conflict is now without modern precedent. The United States has confirmed more than one thousand targets inside Iran have been struck using over twenty different weapons systems — the most comprehensive application of American military force since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Six American service members are now dead, three more than yesterday, including three pilots killed in a friendly fire incident over Kuwait. The financial cost has already exceeded one point four billion dollars and is climbing by hundreds of millions every day.

Inside Iran, the race to choose a new Supreme Leader is underway with no clear frontrunner. The temporary three-person leadership council is deeply divided. Iran's own Foreign Minister admitted that military units are firing at targets without central command approval. Oil is trading above eighty-five dollars a barrel. The Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed. A commercial oil tanker was struck in international waters. And behind closed doors, back-channel negotiations continue through Oman even as the bombs keep falling.

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It is day three of Operation Epic Fury and the conflict has dramatically widened. Hezbollah has entered the war, firing rockets into northern Israel for the first time since the November 2024 ceasefire, and Israel has responded by bombing Beirut. A British military base at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was struck by a drone in what would be the first attack on British sovereign territory since the Second World War. United States Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers conducted overnight strikes against Iran's most deeply buried nuclear facilities. The total death toll inside Iran has reached five hundred and fifty-five confirmed dead. Global oil markets surged toward ninety dollars a barrel as the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed to commercial shipping. Stock markets tumbled. At least fourteen thousand flights remain disrupted across the region. Iran's Foreign Minister admitted some military units may be operating without central command authority. And behind closed doors, back-channel negotiations are reportedly underway through Oman even as the bombs continue to fall.

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On March 1st, 2026, the world woke up to news that changed everything. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was dead, killed in the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury. In this episode we cover the full picture of day two. The confirmed death of Khamenei and forty senior Iranian commanders including the Chief of Staff, the Defense Minister, and the head of Iran's covert nuclear weapons programme. The sinking of an Iranian warship in the Gulf of Oman. Iran's retaliatory campaign, Operation True Promise 4, which launched over seven hundred missiles and drones across the region targeting Israel, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Three American service members killed. The one hundred and forty-eight children killed in the Minab school airstrike. Celebrations and gunfire on the streets of Iran. And the political earthquake in Washington as Congress prepares a war powers vote.

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On February 28th, 2026, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, a massive coordinated military offensive against Iran. President Trump announced major combat operations in an eight-minute video, declaring that the United States would destroy Iran's missile capabilities, annihilate its navy, and eliminate its nuclear program once and for all.

In this episode we cover everything from day one. Where the strikes hit. Which Iranian cities experienced explosions. What happened to Supreme Leader Khamenei. How Iran fired back with dozens of ballistic missiles targeting Israel, Bahrain, Qatar, and United States military bases across the Middle East. The political earthquake in Washington as Congress debated whether Trump had the legal authority to launch the operation. And the global reaction from the United Kingdom, Australia, Qatar, and Iran's exiled royal family.

This is where the story begins. Episode one of Epic Fury, your daily briefing on the US-Iran war.

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Day eight of Operation Epic Fury and President Trump posted four words that defined the entire second week of this war. Make Iran Great Again. In the same breath he demanded unconditional surrender from Tehran, promised to personally help select Iran's next Supreme Leader, and declared there will be no deal of any kind until Iran can no longer fight.

Iran said it will never capitulate. Its security chief threatened to kill and capture thousands of American troops if they set foot on Iranian soil. Its deputy foreign minister warned European nations they will become legitimate targets if they join the conflict. And Iran launched its twenty-third wave of strikes against Israel and United States military targets across the Gulf.

Russia has been providing Iran with intelligence on the locations of American warships and aircraft. Britain pledged fighter jets, helicopters, and a destroyer to defend Saudi Arabia. The United States Treasury reversed its own Russia sanctions policy within seventy-two hours to allow India to buy Russian oil after Gulf energy supplies were cut off. Qatar's Energy Minister warned the war could bring down the economies of the world. Brent crude hit ninety-one dollars a barrel. South Korea's stock market suffered its worst crash since two thousand and eight. Three hundred and thirty thousand people are displaced across the Middle East. And the United States has now struck more than three thousand targets inside Iran in eight days — more targets than any military campaign in recent decades.

Two sides. Two absolute positions. No diplomatic off-ramp in sight.

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Day nine of Operation Epic Fury and Iran made the most consequential decision of the entire conflict so far. The Assembly of Experts, under direct pressure from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, named Mojtaba Khamenei as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic. He is fifty-six years old. He has never held elected office. He has never given a press conference. And he is the son of the man killed by American and Israeli bombs nine days ago. For the first time in its forty-seven year history, the Islamic Republic has produced a dynastic succession. The revolution that overthrew a monarchy has become one.

Donald Trump has already said Mojtaba Khamenei is unacceptable. Iran's Foreign Minister appeared on American television and said nobody knows who the new Supreme Leader will be, on the same morning Assembly members were telling state media a decision had been made. Iran's President personally apologised to neighbouring countries for Iranian strikes, then his office said the remarks had been misinterpreted. Iran launched its twenty-seventh wave of strikes. Two Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon, the first Israeli military deaths of the conflict. Human Rights Watch formally called the Minab school airstrike a potential war crime. Amazon Web Services data centres in Bahrain and the UAE were struck by Iranian drones. A water desalination plant in Bahrain was hit. Russia confirmed providing intelligence to Iran on American warship locations. And Trump attended the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base of the six Americans killed in this war, standing in silence as six flag-draped caskets were carried off a transport aircraft.

Day nine. The new Supreme Leader of Iran is the son of the man America killed. And this war has no end in sight.

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