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Trump Can’t Defeat Iran – & the Pentagon Knows It | w/ Mohammad Marandi
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24:48Now PlayingThe US is losing the war in Iran and admitting it: Trump won’t force Tehran into submission or negotiation with airstrikes, now confirmed by the Pentagon and the CIA. As Dr. Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran tells Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra, the “bombing campaign in search of a strategy” and Washington’s strategic loss in this war have little to do with its ongoing shortage of interceptor missiles.
He explains why Iran is targeting US/Israeli radar infrastructure across the Gulf, Iraq, and now Jordan, and unpacks how, after provoking Yemen, Saudi Arabia is stuck fighting a war it already lost once. And, debunking the myth of Iranian “proxies,” Marandi digs in to Ukraine’s CIA-backed attack on a cargo ship in the Caspian Sea – and what Tehran’s retaliation could mean for Russia's long-term strategic position in the region.
“The Iranians will continue to punish the United States until they get what they consider to be a just resolution to this problem, which may or may not be anytime soon.”
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