Since Saturday, February 28, the US and Israel have conducted strikes against Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury. The attacks killed military officials and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the regime's supreme leader, in his compound in Tehran. Iran has launched sweeping retaliatory attacks across the Gulf, though their current status and scale are unclear.
In response to the conflict, a former CIA officer issued a stark one-word verdict on the possibility of nuclear war, but the exact word used has not been specified. Steven Bartlett hosted an emergency roundtable with former CIA officer Andrew Bustamante, nuclear war expert Annie Jacobsen, and global affairs analyst Benjamin Radd. ' Benjamin Radd highlighted the war in Ukraine in the discussion.