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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

3/20/25 Ken Klippenstein on How the US Would Wage War on Iran

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ken Klippenstein joins Scott to discuss some articles he recently wrote about the plan the American government has for fighting a war with Iran. They start with a discussion of Trump’s strikes on the Houthis of Yemen and then get into all Klippenstein’s learned about how Washington would go about fighting a hot war against the Iranian regime.  Discussed on the show: “Trump Is Now at War With Iran” (Substack) “The Iran War Plan” (Substack) “The Nuclear War Plan for Iran” (Substack) Kenneth Klippenstein is an American journalist who worked at The Intercept. Prior to joining The Intercept, Klippenstein was the D.C. Correspondent at The Nation, and previously was a senior investigative reporter for the online news program The Young Turks. Follow his work on Substack This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.6

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0:16.4

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0:32.5

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0:37.4

Hey, you guys on the line once again, although for the first time in a long time, I've got

0:42.7

Ken Clippenstein. He's an investigative reporter and boys, he investigates stuff and he's got

0:47.6

his hands on some important things. And his substack is Ken Clippenstein.com and he's got a couple of articles uh here starting with

0:56.3

the iran war plan welcome back to the show ken how are you hey scott i'm doing all right thanks for having me

1:01.6

uh very happy to have you here so you got your hands on some documents huh the do d kind

1:08.9

yeah the military planning kind um which is becoming relevant now.

1:14.4

If you look at the war of words between President Trump and Iranian leadership,

1:19.8

and now the war of actual actions, if you look at the strikes against the Houthis in Yemen,

1:24.3

I thought that made all this relevant.

1:27.1

Okay, so, well, I mean, just take us through

1:30.2

it. What do you got? Yeah. So the strikes on Houthi forces in Yemen, I thought was kind of poorly

1:36.0

reported by the press, which kind of took it as a chance to, you know, just sort of titter at the Trump

1:43.8

administration for doing the same thing

1:45.3

that the Biden administration had done. It's true that the Biden administration had carried out a bunch

1:49.0

of strikes on the Houthis, which were not effective. Obviously, the Houthis are still attacking,

1:53.4

you know, ships in the Red Sea, which is a corridor that a lot of commerce passes through.

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