Apr 01, 2026

Operation Epic Fury is the current United States military campaign against Iran — and most Americans still don’t have the full picture of what’s really at stake. On this episode of The Jenny Beth Show, Jenny Beth Martin sits down with Ilan Berman, Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council and one of America’s foremost Iran and Middle East security experts, to break down everything you need to know. This conflict has been building for 47 years — since Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 Islamic Revolution transformed Iran from a U.S. ally into an ideologically committed adversary determined to remake the Middle East in its own image. Ilan explains why the Obama administration’s JCPOA accelerated Iran’s regional expansion, what Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished last summer against Iran’s nuclear sites, and why Operation Epic Fury is now targeting Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missile arsenal, and proxy terror network simultaneously. Jenny Beth and Ilan discuss the critical question now facing the region: will the Iranian people rise up to reclaim their country — or will the White House cut a deal with the rump regime before that window closes? They also cover America’s dangerous information warfare deficit: China is spending $10 billion annually on global propaganda while America’s information infrastructure has been significantly reduced. What does all of this mean for Taiwan, Ukraine, and American national security? Ilan connects the dots in a way that makes the stakes unmistakably clear for every concerned citizen. For more information, visit teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

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