Max Blumenthal

The Grayzone’s Kei Pritsker spoke to Iranian monarchists in Los Angeles on March 8, 2026

The diaspora demonstrators said that bombing of a girls school in Iran was worth it as long as the Iranian government was overthrown, and urged Trump to authorize a ground invasion of Iran.

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Dr. Setareh Sadeqi, assistant professor of World Studies at the University of Tehran, speaks to The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal from Isfahan, Iran as her country defends itself against a vicious combined assault by the US and Israeli militaries. Sadeqi addresses the teachings and legacies of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and explains how his assassination has galvanized the Shia masses and united Iran in a battle for its national integrity.

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Max Blumenthal goes on Judging Freedom and basically rips the mask off Trump’s Iran adventure as an MEK–Netanyahu–Epstein production, run through a bought Pentagon and a captive Senate. He walks Judge Napolitano through his confrontation with MEK‑payrolled General Jack Keane gloating that sanctions are “choking” Iranians, then shows how Netanyahu, Adelson cash and a network of Israel‑aligned handlers rewired Trump from “anti–regime change” candidate into the president who literally opened the gates of hell by killing the Ayatollah. What D.C. is selling as smart power, Blumenthal frames as a delusional Vietnam‑style project for Israel and the Epstein class, with Kurds as Trojan horse and U.S. troops as expendable cannon fodder.

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“Like puppets on a string.”Marco Rubio exposed what everyone already knew: Trump bombed Iran for Israel.The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal explains the Israeli infiltration of the Trump admin in three minutes.

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Max Blumenthal is joined by analyst Ali Alizadeh to discuss the US-Israeli war imposed on Iran, the state of Iranian society and politics after the assassination of the country’s Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the existential nature of the regional conflict for Iran.

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Max Blumenthal tells Judge Napolitano we’re watching the 1970s CIA terror playbook and the 2003 Iraq WMD hoax rebooted to serve the Greater Israel project. He links a Miami gusano speedboat raid on Cuba and past Bay of Piglets ops to today’s oil‑embargo siege warfare and regime‑change schemes from Venezuela to Tehran. In the Middle East, he says Tucker Carlson’s demolition of Christian Zionist crank Mike Huckabee briefly blew up the sales pitch for an Iran war that only Israel actually wants. Behind Trump’s “diplomacy,” Blumenthal sees Zionist oligarch capture and a plan to use U.S. troops as trip‑wire corpses so a wildly unpopular regional, possibly nuclear, war can be sold as revenge.

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Max Blumenthal joins Dialogue Works to expose how the National Endowment for Democracy quietly turned Iran’s June riots into a Pentagon talking point, boasting in open session of deploying 200 covert Starlink terminals and partnering with monarchist networks to inflate the death toll into a pretext for war. He traces how this “private CIA” infrastructure, combined with crushing U.S. sanctions, trapped Trump into promising “help is on the way,” then green‑lighting a massive carrier buildup that left him effectively subcontracted to Netanyahu and a small clique of Zionist billionaires and fixers like Kushner and Witkoff. From there, Blumenthal walks through the bigger picture: an Iran that has reached near military parity with Israel through indigenous missiles and drones, Pentagon brass quietly warning the war is unwinnable, Arab vassal states jolted by Mike Huckabee’s on‑air Greater Israel fantasies, and a Trump family that now believes it’s at the mercy of the same oligarchic “they” driving the region toward a long, possibly nuclear, Greater Israel war.

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Max Blumenthal joins George Galloway on MOATS to lay out how Netanyahu’s rented American president has been handed a war calendar written in Tel Aviv, with a fake 10‑day “diplomacy” window timed to Purim and Ramadan and backed by the biggest U.S. naval build‑up since Iraq. He argues that Trump is no longer making Iran policy at all, having ceded the wheel to Likudnik neocons, Adelson money, and an Epstein‑class oligarchy that needs regime change in Tehran to preserve Israel’s fading military edge—and that his own brush with an armed intruder at Mar‑a‑Lago now makes him fear what defying “Greater Israel” might mean for his personal safety. Blumenthal hails Tucker Carlson’s evisceration of Christian Zionist ambassador Mike Huckabee—who on camera endorsed a biblical land‑grab from the Nile to the Euphrates—as a rare act of real journalism that embarrassed Arab vassal states and briefly complicated the rush to war, while both U.S. parties, from Schumer to AOC’s regime‑change “left,” quietly enable Trump’s escalations. In the background, he says, sits the deeper architecture of state capture: AIPAC‑manufactured careers, Susie Wiles literally moving from advising Netanyahu to gatekeeping the White House, Epstein’s network of Rothschilds, bankers and tech billionaires, and figures like Howard Lutnick and Eric Trump cashing in on tariffs, crypto, and Israeli drones—what Blumenthal calls the “conspiracy theory of late‑stage capitalism,” a system run not by democracy but by a cartel of zionist oligarchs marching us toward a regional, possibly nuclear, war.

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“The Iranians are not going to wait until the bombs start exploding. As soon as they’re convinced that something is happening, then they’re going to go all-out.”

Professor Mohammad Marandi tells Max Blumenthal that Tehran won’t strike first, citing Iranians’ widely-shared religious beliefs prohibiting unprovoked aggression. But he warns that if they’re attacked, Iranian retaliation will be immediate — and worse than “Vietnam, Iraq, and all the other US wars together.”

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Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss the looming US-Israeli regime change war on Iran and how his country will respond, both militarily and politically. Marandi forecasts economically devastating consequences, with an energy crisis brought on by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the possible collapse of Gulf family monarchies, and a militarily unmanageable environment for the Trump administration. While Trump reportedly considers a series of “symbolic” strikes to weaken Iran’s negotiating hand, Marandi argues that Iran has no choice but to respond with maximum force.

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