Attacks in Lebanon & Iran: Netanyahu Wants to Drag U.S. Into Wider War w/ Mohammad Marandi
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 4 January 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Prof. Marandi of the University of Tehran says Israel can’t win a wider war against Lebanon and Iran. But these countries will have to respond to the recent terror attacks—and Israel’s war against Palestine may expand into a regional conflict nonetheless. Israel bombed Lebanon, assassinating senior Hamas political leader Saleh al-Arouri, followed by a series of explosions at the memorial service for Iranian General Qaseem Solemani, which killed over 100 people. Will the war widen? Will the U.S. ever pull back from its support for the genocidal Israeli regime?
Brian Becker is joined by Prof. Mohammad Marandi. He is an expert on American studies and postcolonial literature who teaches at the University of Tehran.
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| 0:00.0 | Is Israel's genocidal war against the people of Gaza |
| 0:07.0 | and its targeted assassination of senior Hamas leaders in Beirut |
| 0:13.0 | about to incite an even larger regional war in the Middle East? |
| 0:18.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. |
| 0:22.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible |
| 0:25.6 | even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:27.6 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist Program. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:58.8 | Today we're talking once again with Professor Muhammad Mirandi. |
| 1:02.2 | Muhammad is an expert on American Studies and post-colonial literature. |
| 1:06.6 | He teaches at the University of Tehran. |
| 1:08.9 | We're speaking to him from Iran. |
| 1:11.8 | Welcome back, Muhammad. |
| 1:13.3 | Thank you, Brian. |
| 1:15.1 | I know where you are, there is, of course, |
| 1:18.0 | great consternation, grief, anger, |
| 1:22.3 | funeral ceremony marking the assassination |
| 1:26.1 | of General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed four years ago today |
| 1:29.7 | in a targeted assassination by Donald Trump, ordered by Donald Trump at the airport in Baghdad. |
| 1:37.0 | Thousands, tens of thousands of mourners came to remember him to commemorate his life. |
| 1:43.0 | And there was a powerful explosion. According to media reports |
| 1:46.8 | here, more than 100 people are dead, many, many more injured. In other words, a real terrorist attack |
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