The year is 2025, and the vibes are nuclear. You don’t know what Hezbollah is, you thought Ayatollah was a type of hummus, and now you’re spiraling because the U.S. just dropped bombs on Iran’s nuclear program. That’s okay. I made this episode for you.

This is Middle East lore for people who slept through history class but are suddenly Googling “what is uranium enrichment” at 2AM. Today, we’re talking about Iran, Israel, America, and whether World War III is actually happening- like, for real this time.

Topics include:

• Why the CIA fumbled the geopolitical bag in 1953

• Why Iran went from miniskirts to mandatory hijabs overnight

• What Hezbollah actually is

• How Israel and Saudi Arabia are basically sneaky-linking

• What a “proxy war” is and why America won’t log off

• Why every time we say “stability,” we really mean “oil”

• And how this whole mess is lowkey sponsored by Lockheed Martin

Also: underground raves in Tehran, religious trauma, and the fact that yes- Iran and Israel are basically sending each other nukes in the group chat.

By the end of this episode, you’ll know who hates who, who funds who, and who’s probably going to start WW3 - and you won’t even need a PhD or a Pentagon badge to understand it.

Thanks so much for listening and supporting the show! If this episode untangled the chaos, drop a five-star review or send it to your smartest dumb friend who still confuses Iran with Iraq.

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