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Donald Trump is sending over what he calls “a massive Armada” to Iran with the
promises to do a reprise of his quick attack on Venezuela that ended with the
kidnapping of president Nicolás Maduro. Trump claims that “like with
Venezuela, it is, ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission.” But will a
war with Iran really be so simple? To look at the prospects for war and the
larger politics driving the conflict, I spoke with Amir Handjani of The Quincy
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Donald Trump is sending over what he calls “a massive armada” to Iran, promising to repeat the kind of quick attack that ended with the kidnapping of President Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela. Trump claims that, “like with Venezuela, [the US] is ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission.” But will a war with Iran really be so simple? To look at the prospects for war and the larger politics driving the conflict, I spoke with Amir Handjani of The Quincy Institute.
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The Trump administration has announced a new set of harsh sanctions against Iran. This is a strange development since originally Trump launched a war on Iran on the pretext that sanctions weren’t working. Trita Parsi of the Qunicy Institute argues the current tactic won’t work and is a holding action as both the US and Iran bide their time in a long conflict. Parsi’s writings can be found on his Substack. In the interview, we discuss his column on the surprising way many governments are rooting for Iran to check US imperialism.
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Jeet HeerTwitterJeet Heer is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also pens the monthly column “Morbid Symptoms.” The author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles (2014), Heer has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Prospect, The Guardian, The New Republic, and The Boston Globe.