Inside Operation Epic Fury: Why Trump is Finishing the Fight with Iran

·2 hr 3 min

Brian Kilmeade comes out fast. He frames the hour around Trump's weekend meeting with Republicans at Doral, the flight back to New York City, and a president he says is moving at full speed while dealing with both economic challenges and war challenges. Lawrence Jones is in studio. Roger Zachheim is brought in to compare Reagan's response to the emergence of this Islamic terror regime in 1980 with Trump's handling of Iran now, and the conversation moves from that comparison into broader national-security politics without much pause. Steve Mosher follows. He uses the recent pause in Chinese jets and bombers around Taiwan to argue that Beijing watches American power closely and that the wider geopolitical picture is linked across theaters. Iran stays at the center. The discussion says attacks on command centers, the IRGC headquarters, and the spread of fighting across 31 separate provinces show a regime under strain even as it responds with ballistic missiles and lashes out at neighbors. The Gulf states matter too. Brian and the guests connect attacks on airports, hotels, a desalinization plant in Bahrain, a building in Saudi Arabia where the CIA is housed, and radar supporting missile defense in Qatar to a wider campaign against economic life and regional security. The method is not just open warfare. The show keeps circling back to the idea that Iran works through intimidation and pressure on vulnerable people, so the threat reaches well beyond a single weapons program. A New York case sharpens that point. They bring up a Pakistani man accused of plotting to kill Trump, describe an FBI sting, and repeat the claim that Iranians threatened his family, then use it to show how the network looks for pliable intermediaries. The pace never really lets up. One topic slides into the next with quick cues and blunt verdicts, which keeps the hour sounding like live radio instead of a slow seminar. By the end, the show is pushing the line that Iran cannot be judged only by the nuclear question because missiles, proxy-style pressure, and radicalization are part of the same fight. That is the frame. Listeners who want a fast, combative national-security hour with a clear line will get the most from it, while listeners who want a soft-edged survey with lots of hedging should look elsewhere.

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A fast, forceful hour that folds Doral, Reagan, China, and Iran into a single national-security case.

Brian Kilmeade's hour runs on a packed weekend agenda and a broad foreign-policy frame: a meeting with Republicans at Doral, Reagan-era parallels with Roger Zachheim, and a China segment that links Taiwan to wider pressure points.

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