2/27/26 Larry Johnson Predicts Trump’s War on Iran and Exposes the Lies It’s Built On

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Scott interviewed Larry Johnson hours before the joint US-Israeli air campaign on Iran commenced. In the interview, Johnson presciently explained why he was virtually certain this was coming. He and Scott then debunked all the ridiculous lies this insane operation is built on and reflected on the complete lack of a clear endgame. Discussed on the show: “Will Trump Take the Exit Ramp or Go to War with Iran?” (Sonar21) Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and a former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. Follow his analysis at Sonar21. Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth app: https://podsworth.com Use code HORTON50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings, sound like a pro, and also support the Scott Horton Show! For more on Scott's work: Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott's other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott's books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/47jMtg7 (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com) Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/3tgMCdw Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/3HRufs0 Follow Scott on X @scotthortonshow And check out Scott’s full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated https://rrbi.co Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com You can also support Scott’s work by making a one-time or recurring donation at https://scotthorton.org/donate/https://scotthortonshow.com or https://patreon.com/scotthortonshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen of the press have been less than honest, reporting to the American people, what's going on in this country?
0:11.0	Because the babies are making it.
0:13.0	We're dealing with Hitler Revisited.
0:15.0	This is the Scott Horton Show, Libertarian Foreign Policy, mostly. When the the president doesn't that means that it is not
0:24.2	only we're going to take out seven countries they're doing negotiate now end this war and now
0:34.2	here's your host, Scott Porton.
0:42.4	Okay, you guys, introducing Larry Johnson again.
0:44.9	He's a former CIA guy, but now he's all right.
0:51.5	And he's always done to explain why we shouldn't get in another bad intervention here,
0:54.9	there, and the other place and why we should cease the ones we're already in a lot of the times and he writes at sonar21.com is this great website and always long
1:02.8	in-depth articles good insight and good sourcing and lots of great stuff I really appreciate
1:09.0	you and everybody knows you from all the different podcasts. So we are recording this, what, midday, well, kind of actually toward later afternoon on Friday.
1:18.6	And as of now, we're not bombing around yet and they're all different kind of mixed signals but I guess they are saying correct me if I'm
1:28.1	wrong that they have talks scheduled for next week maybe they're taking a break for the weekend
1:34.6	this is deja vu all over again to quote yogi Berra well I wonder about that I mean so last
1:40.5	June that was just cover before they went ahead and started bombing them anyway. So is that what you think is going to happen now?
1:46.0	Yeah, I think so.
1:48.1	It certainly looks that way.
1:50.0	This, you know, number one, the lie that's being pushed is that this is all about whether Iran's going to have access to nuclear weapons or not.
1:58.2	And Trump said Tuesday night, they've got to say that they don't want them
2:01.5	permanently ever. Okay, they came out within 24 hours and said that. Yeah. Yeah, we agree. We don't
2:08.5	want them. And they've got that all along anyway. Yeah. So, but Trump can't take yes for an answer.
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