Ben Rhodes served as deputy national security adviser in Barack Obama's White House for eight years. He was working with President Obama as Benjamin Netanyahu continued to pressure the US, time and time again, to attack Iran. Obama, says Rhodes, resisted the Israeli prime minister's pressure campaign, but now under President Donald Trump's second term, it's clear that "Netanyahu essentially bullied him [Trump] into this war."

In this wide-ranging interview, Mehdi and Rhodes discuss Israel's role in provoking this war with Iran, the Democratic Party leadership's weak response to the conflict, and the events that led up to this disaster during the Obama and Biden presidencies.

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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by congressional candidates Junaid Ahmed, Kat Abughazaleh, and Robert Peters to discuss the influence of AIPAC in their election races in Illinois.

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Very few people have the credibility to speak on Iran's nuclear capabilities like Mohamed ElBaradei can. As the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1997 to 2009, who tried to prevent the illegal invasion of Iraq on spurious WMD grounds in 2003, ElBaradei joins Mehdi to discuss the biggest and most concerning aspects of the Israel-American war with Iran, the credibility of its nuclear justifications, and how it is changing the future of war.

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In the wake of the US's assassination of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, many are asking – will Iran actually see regime change, as President Donald Trump has called for? What would that take? And is the real goal to engineer a civil war inside of Iran and leave it as a failed state?

In this 'Mehdi Unfiltered' interview, Mehdi gets straight down to the facts with one of the top Iranian-affairs experts, Ali Vaez – who serves as the International Crisis Group's Iran Project Director. Vaez breaks down how the country's leadership is handling this crisis and why he worries the US and Israel's war on Iran may bring the country to state collapse.

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"This isn't a war! It was a preemptive strike!"

That's the ludicrous and false narrative the Trump administration and the GOP have been touting since the US and Israel launched their illegal attack on Iran less than a week ago.

But in his latest monologue, Mehdi brings the receipts to show how we've heard this story before – just look at Putin's war in Ukraine. The parallels, he says, are as clear as they are eery - but also conveniently ignored by the mainstream media in the United States.

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In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Rep. André Carson to discuss the latest on the Israeli-US attack on Iran.

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In this 'Mehdi Unfiltered' interview, Mohsen Mahdawi – a Columbia student who was infamously detained by ICE last year at his citizenship interview – describes to Mehdi the "chilling effect" taking place on campus, after the arrest of him and other pro-Palestine students, and the university's $221 million settlement with the Trump administration.

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In this episode of Mehdi Unfiltered, former DNC rising star David Hogg talks to Mehdi about being ousted as DNC vice chair, his Leaders We Deserve PAC, and why younger progressives are the key to the Democratic Party's future.

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Attorney, trial lawyer, and former MSNBC anchor Katie Phang joins her former colleague and good friend Mehdi on set in DC, to unpack the latest in the Epstein saga and Donald Trump's ongoing violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and more.

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Democrats should be doing victory laps right now, after President Donald Trump's rambling State of the Union address is already polling as the least popular SOTU speech of the century.

Yet, the party still appears to be in worse shape than ever before, suffering from their own record-low approval ratings.

Perhaps that's why people like Rep. Seth Moulton, a 47-year old Iraq War veteran, are calling for a change in leadership, as he challenges 79-year old Senator Ed Markey for his Massachusetts Senate seat.

In this wide-ranging and challenging interview with the centrist Democratic congressman, Mehdi asks Moulton whether he can beat a progressive incumbent senator with such high approval ratings, and also challenges him on his own voting record in the House.

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