Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Washington, D.C. February 4, 2025 (Leah Millis/Reuters)
EA-Times Radio VideoCast: Trump Panics Over His War on Iran
I joined international media on Tuesday to evaluate the latest military, political, and economic developments in the US-Israel War on Iran and Iranian retaliation across the Middle East.
I explain how the Iranian regime has refused to surrender after the US-Israel “Plan A” of killing the Supreme Leader and dozens of commanders and officials. So the Trump and Netanyahu camps press on with no “Plan B”, intensifying attacks while making vague, contradictory, and sometimes false statements.
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I joined Petrie Hosken on Tuesday night for an 18-minute chat, beginning with the propaganda and bluster from both the Trump camp and the Iranian regime.
After dealing with the fact-free declarations of Donald Trump, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Iranian regime spokesperson Seyed Mohammad Marandi — with whom I worked at the University of Birmingham — I get to what we know and don’t know.
The regime is pushing back Trump’s pose that the “war is almost complete” with retaliation across the Gulf States and the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
It’s all well and good for both sides to thump their chests, but the reality is this is an “uncontained” war.
I look at possible off-ramps, but assess that the Trump camp is still not open to Qatar’s mediation effort.
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I joined the Irish outlet at lunchtime on Tuesday to juxtapose Trump’s conflicting statement with his Administration’s objectives — or lack of objectives.
I cut through the misleading declarations of Trump and Hegseth to set out clearly when and why the Administration decided to pursue a war for “regime surrender” — but how they have no apparent plan to achieve this after the regime’s survival beyond US-Israeli strikes.
The off ramp is probably going to be when domestic pressure forces Trump and his inner circle to pull back.
If that pressure grows, then there is an opening for the Gulf States, particularly Qatar, to exploit.
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I join Dr. Munawar Hussain and host Omar Khalid Butt to dissect further the Trump and Iranian positions, and to consider the direction of the “uncontained war”.
