Epic Fury: The US-Iran War Podcast

Day 29 of Operation Epic Fury. One month in. The war that was supposed to last four weeks has entered its second month — and on its one-month anniversary, Yemen's Houthi rebels fired their first missiles at Israel, Iran struck two more nuclear facilities, and Israel attacked weapons production plants across Tehran. The Houthis have entered the US-Iran war. Their first military operation was a...

Pakistan's Foreign Minister publicly confirmed it for the first time: US-Iran indirect talks are taking place through messages being relayed by Islamabad. Iran's ambassador secretly met Pakistan's interior minister in Islamabad on Thursday. Trump extended his power plant strike deadline by ten days to April sixth — citing, in his words, an Iranian Government request that Iran flatly de...

The United States put a fifteen-point peace plan on the table. Iran called it maximalist and unreasonable, rejected it, and issued five counter-demands of its own — including war reparations and permanent Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. The White House responded by saying Trump is prepared to unleash hell. This episode breaks down both plans in full, explains why Iran's Hormuz s...

Trump stood in the Oval Office on Tuesday and declared the war won. Then his Defense Secretary said he was disappointed there might be a ceasefire. Then the US sent a fifteen-point ceasefire plan to Iran through Pakistan. Then Iran's military aired a prerecorded video on state television mocking the Americans for negotiating with themselves. Day twenty-six of Operation Epic Fury, and the diplo...

Hours before his 48-hour deadline expired, Trump posted on Truth Social in full capitals that the United States and Iran had held very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of hostilities — and that he was postponing all strikes on Iranian power plants for five days. Markets surged. Oil dropped thirteen percent in a single day. And then Iran said there were no...

A bonus deep-dive episode of Epic Fury: The US-Iran War Podcast. Every precision strike, every missile intercept, every command kill in Operation Epic Fury runs through satellites. In this episode, we break down the four categories of military satellite capability shaping the conflict — imagery intelligence, signals intelligence, communications, and missile warning — and explain how the US is usin...

The clock has run out. Trump's 48-hour ultimatum to Iran expires tonight at 7:44pm Eastern Time — and Iran has not reopened the Strait of Hormuz. Instead, Tehran escalated. Iran's armed forces declared they are ready to close the Strait indefinitely if power plants are struck. Iran threatened to mine the entire Persian Gulf if its coastline is attacked. And the IRGC said on state televisio...

Day 23 of Operation Epic Fury. President Trump has issued a stark 48-hour ultimatum to Iran: fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or the United States will obliterate Iranian power plants, starting with the largest. Iran's military responded immediately, threatening to destroy all American energy, IT, and desalination infrastructure across the Middle East if its power grid is hit. Iranian ballist...

Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia — the joint US-UK bomber base in the Indian Ocean, two thousand three hundred miles from Iran's coast. Neither missile hit. But Iran just demonstrated it has weapons that can reach far beyond the Middle East. The targeting doctrine has expanded. Natanz was struck again. Iran's armed forces spokesman threatened that touris...

Today is Nowruz. The Persian New Year began this morning at the spring equinox. Iran marked it by striking an oil refinery in Haifa. Saudi Arabia halted exports at Yanbu. Kuwait's Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery burned. Brent crude hit one hundred and nineteen dollars a barrel — up sixty-five percent since the war began. The UN Security Council passed a resolution thirteen to zero demanding Iran reope...

Three senior Iranian officials killed in forty-eight hours. Yesterday, Ali Larijani and the Basij commander. Today, intelligence minister Esmail Khatib — confirmed dead in an Israeli strike. Israel's military has been given a standing kill order: eliminate any senior Iranian official, no further political approval required. Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field — the world's larges...

Ali Larijani is dead. The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council — the most visible surviving official of the Islamic Republic since the Supreme Leader went into hiding — was killed overnight in an Israeli airstrike. His son, his chief of staff, and his security detail died with him. So did Gholamreza Soleimani, the Basij commander. Iran fired over one hundred missiles at Israel in r...

The United Arab Emirates shut its entire airspace. The US Embassy in Baghdad was hit by three drones and four rockets — the most intense attack on that compound since the war began. And two hundred American service members have now been wounded, a figure that had been dramatically understated in official briefings until Tuesday. The IRGC spokesperson said Iran's oldest missiles are what has be...

In this bonus deep-dive episode of Epic Fury: The US-Iran War Podcast, we explain everything you need to know about the Strait of Hormuz and why it sits at the very centre of the US-Iran conflict of 2026. Twenty percent of the world's oil passes through a channel just twenty-one miles wide. Since Operation Epic Fury began on February 28, 2026, commercial shipping through the strait has effecti...

Trump claimed Iran wants to negotiate. Iran's Foreign Minister went on American television and said the opposite. No, we never asked for a ceasefire. And we have never asked even for negotiation. We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes. That contradiction defined day seventeen of Operation Epic Fury. Araghchi spelled out Iran's actual terms: guarantees the war will not be repe...

Day sixteen of Operation Epic Fury and the war's central strategic failure is now fully exposed. Sixteen days of the most intensive air campaign in modern history, and the United States cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz without asking China for help. Trump posted on Truth Social calling on China, France, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom to send warships to the Gulf in conjunction wi...

Day fifteen of Operation Epic Fury and the United States crossed a line that had never been crossed before. Kharg Island — the tiny strip of land that processes ninety percent of Iran's crude oil exports — was bombed overnight. Trump called it one of the most powerful bombing raids in the history of the Middle East. He said every military target was totally obliterated. He said, for reasons of...

Day fourteen of Operation Epic Fury and Donald Trump opened the day by posting on Truth Social that it was a great honour to be killing Iranians, that the US has unparalleled firepower and unlimited ammunition, and that Gulf states should watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. Hours later, a US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in western Iraq. Four crew members confirmed dead. T...

Day thirteen of Operation Epic Fury and the question America had been avoiding for nearly two weeks finally got an answer. The Pentagon's preliminary investigation found that a United States Tomahawk cruise missile killed the children of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab. One hundred and sixty-five dead. Most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The strike happened because Central C...

Day twelve of Operation Epic Fury and the Pentagon promised its most intense day of strikes yet. Then everything escalated at once. Iran laid naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz — exploiting a critical gap in American minesweeping capability. A drone struck the American diplomatic facility in Baghdad. A fire broke out at one of the Gulf's largest oil refineries in the UAE. And Iran's top n...

Day eleven of Operation Epic Fury and President Trump delivered the most contradictory set of signals of the entire conflict. Speaking to House Republicans at his Doral resort in Miami, he said the war would end pretty quickly and described it as a short-term excursion. Then at his first press conference since the strikes began, he said America had not won enough, that there was more to do, and th...

Iran has fired more than two thousand drones at American military bases, Gulf states, and Israel since Operation Epic Fury began. But what exactly are these weapons. Where did they come from. How do they work. And how is America fighting back. This bonus episode covers the full story of Iran's drone arsenal from the beginning. The Shahed-136, the twenty thousand dollar one-way attack drone tha...

Day ten of Operation Epic Fury and the Islamic Republic made its most consequential decision since the revolution. The Assembly of Experts appointed Mojtaba Khamenei — son of the man killed by American and Israeli bombs ten days ago — as the third Supreme Leader in Iran's forty-seven year history. The revolution that overthrew a monarchy has become one. Every major Iranian institution pledged...

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 m...

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 sec...