The Kim Iversen Show LIVE | August 31, 2026 Strikes are back. After a five-week pause, US forces hit Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz — CENTCOM calls it preemptive mine-clearing, Iran calls it terrorism and promises retaliation — and Iran fired back at US bases in Jordan and a drone at the UAE. Trump posts AI-generated images of Kharg Island “being blown to smithereens” and promises “we’re going to hit them hard.” Then the clip that changes everything: Netanyahu brags on camera that it took him a long time to bring the United States into war with Iran, and he was able to do it because he logged close to 1,000 hours on American television. Kim connects it to the 1996 “Clean Break” paper — written for Netanyahu by Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser — which called for removing Saddam, weakening Syria, and confronting Iran, and whose authors then occupied the exact Pentagon and White House positions that launched the Iraq War. Feith’s own son now sits on Trump’s NSC. Meanwhile military leaders across every branch have formally “non-concurred” with Hegseth’s orders to extend 50,000+ troops, warning the posture is unsustainable and leaves America exposed everywhere else. Then: eight NBC News crew members beaten by masked settlers in the West Bank — a former US deputy ambassador to Israel says the settlers “would not do this to Americans had they not received a green light from the Israeli government.” Tucker Carlson calls for Trump’s removal over nuclear threats, running the full timeline: “fire and fury,” “my button works,” “a whole civilization will die tonight,” “the entire country can be taken out in one night.” Former CIA officer Kiriakou claims Israel told Trump “we have nuclear weapons and we’ll use them if you don’t bomb Iran.” Former National Security Advisor Joe Kent says nuclear weapons are now the administration’s only remaining option. Singapore’s former Foreign Minister George Yeo delivers a cold-eyed analysis: American decline is structural and self-reinforcing, driven by debt service that now exceeds the entire defense budget — and the Byzantium analogy. Putin and Xi meet.
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