Episode Details

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 ballistic missile barrage at southern Israel, intercepted but now raising the prospect of a simultaneous Hormuz and Red Sea dual-corridor shutdown. One trillion dollars in annual Red Sea trade. Twenty percent of global oil through Hormuz. If both close simultaneously, no economic model can contain it.

Israel struck the Shahid Khondab Heavy Water Complex in Arak — a facility linked to Iran's plutonium pathway — and the Ardakan yellowcake plant in Yazd Province, the starting point of Iran's nuclear enrichment chain. No radiation leaks confirmed. IAEA monitoring both sites. Iran's foreign minister vows a heavy price. Also hit: Mobarakeh Steel in Isfahan and Khuzestan Steel in Ahvaz, with power outages in eastern Tehran. CENTCOM confirms ten thousand-plus targets struck across Iran and two-thirds of Iran's missile production destroyed.

Also in this episode: Iran makes its first Strait of Hormuz concession — agreeing to allow humanitarian aid and agricultural shipments through following a UN request. Iran fires six ballistic missiles and twenty-nine drones at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, wounding fifteen US troops, five seriously — over two dozen Americans wounded at that base in a week. Pakistan announces Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt are sending foreign ministers to Islamabad for peace talks. UK intelligence confirms Russia provided pre-war military training to Iran. Six hundred and twenty thousand women and girls displaced across the region. And a one-month reckoning: three thousand dead across the Middle East, one million displaced in Lebanon, the IEA's worst-ever energy crisis, Trump's four-week timetable expired, and no ceasefire in sight.

The second month of the US-Iran war begins now.