September 15th, 2026: Iran’s Government Is Splintering Over the War & China Fears the AI Revolution
The episode reveals deep fractures within Iran’s leadership, where hardliners sabotaged a US-brokered ceasefire by attacking commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz—without President Masoud Pezeshkian’s knowledge—exposing a power vacuum amid an invisible Supreme Leader. Meanwhile, China’
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