{"podcast":{"title":"War Nerd Radio — Subscriber Feed","slug":"war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-2278154","podcast_index_feed_id":2278154,"rss_url":"https://exiledonline.com/45wn84klrz/feed.xml","website_url":"http://exiledonline.com/45wn84klrz/","image_url":"http://exiledonline.com/45wn84klrz/images/itunes_image.png","author":"Gary Brecher","episode_count":620,"summary":"Nothing fancy; just the wars, ma’am. It runs on your donations, like all guerrilla campaigns. Support the show!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T12:20:11.354142+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-2278154"},"episode":{"title":"Radio War Nerd EP 589 — Hezbollah Rising, feat. Cyrus","slug":"radio-war-nerd-ep-589-hezbollah-rising-feat-cyrus","published_at":"2026-03-13T17:24:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-2278154/radio-war-nerd-ep-589-hezbollah-rising-feat-cyrus","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-2278154","url":"http://exiledonline.com/45wn84klrz/?name=rwn_ep_589_0312261.mp3","audio_url":"http://exiledonline.com/45wn84klrz/media/rwn_ep_589_0312261.mp3","summary":"Guest: \"Cyrus\" , MENA researcherRecorded: March 12, 2026 Cyrus joins us to discuss why Hezbollah entered the war against Israel now, Lebanon politics, Syria under the former leader of Al Qaeda's branch, Iraq's pro-Iran militia groups, and more. (Beirut, along with the rest of Lebanon, is being bombed by Israel, so the connection is a bit spotty at times - nothing the mighty War Nerd Legion can't manage.) Further listening with Cyrus:-EP #543 — Syria, Hezbollah & Palestine-Israel, feat. Cyrus -EP #509 — Jolani & The Making of Syrian Sunni Ethno-Supremacism -EP #487 — Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire + Syria Collapse -EP #478 — Israel's War on Lebano n Total time: 1:44:22Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Buy & review John Dolan's new book, They Should Have Been Hanged: War Nerd Essays on the U.S. Civil War Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarnerd Sound production by Telescope Audio","meta_description":"Guest: \"Cyrus\" , MENA researcherRecorded: March 12, 2026 Cyrus joins us to discuss why Hezbollah entered the war against Israel now, Lebanon politics, Syr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6261,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-2278154/episodes/radio-war-nerd-ep-589-hezbollah-rising-feat-cyrus/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/war-nerd-radio-subscriber-feed-2278154/radio-war-nerd-ep-589-hezbollah-rising-feat-cyrus.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}