Tehran University’s Professor Mohammad Marandi joins us for Episode 275 of KK&F, where we talk about why Trump’s war on Iran is and will be a failure, as well as the Epstein class war crimes that everyone should be talking about. Trump’s war on Iran began over a month ago, reflecting his administration’s willingness — eagerness — to go against the law and the demands of the American people to pursue bloody imperialist conflict. Professor Marandi offers insight into why, in Tehran, the prevailing perception of this war is that it is a loss for the U.S. He imagines that even Trump’s generals warned him about the senseless strategy (or lack thereof) that he has now pursued. At this point, we’re watching the U.S. self-destruct in its pursuit of maximum bloodshed and maximum “victory.”

We also connect this conflict and the U.S.’s bungling of the so-called peace talks to a bigger failure on the global scale: other countries, watching the U.S. launch a campaign of destruction, have not spoken out. The lack of outrage, in powerful and wealthy countries like Italy and the U.K., refuse to put any pressure on the U.S. to end the war. And that’s what enables Professor Marandi to say, in what will be a major focus of conversations to come: “This is far bigger than Trump.”

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