Biden's Colossal Failure in the Middle East: How the U.S. Position Is Weakening in Global Politics
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Biden just landed from a multi-day tour in the Middle East where he spectacularly failed at his goals, including bringing more Arab countries into an alliance with Israel and bringing the price of oil down. This week, Russian President Putin is meeting with Iranian & Turkish leaders including Supreme Leader Khamenei and President Erdogan--showing that Iran and Russia are not as isolated as Biden makes them out to be. U.S. influence is declining, but will U.S. officials change their approach?
Brian is joined by Professor 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 | Joe Biden has been touring the Middle East. He shared a well-publicized fist bump with the notorious |
| 0:08.5 | leader of Saudi Arabia. He stopped off in Israel to denounce liberal Democrats who had offered |
| 0:15.2 | mild criticisms of the Israeli government. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin arrives in Iran today. |
| 0:23.5 | We need a new system. |
| 0:25.6 | We need a new society. |
| 0:27.5 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible |
| 0:30.3 | even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:31.8 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 1:13.8 | Thank you. realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to The Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. If you enjoy or rely on this show or both, please show your support by subscribing to our show on patreon.com forward slash the socialist program. |
| 1:19.0 | We're joined today from Tehran, the capital of Iran by Mohamed Mirandi. |
| 1:27.3 | Muhammad is an expert on American studies and post-colonial literature he teaches at the University of Tehran. |
| 1:29.7 | Muhammad, welcome back to the Socialist Program. |
| 1:36.3 | Thank you very much for inviting me. Well, it's a great pleasure and an honor for us, in fact. |
| 1:43.3 | We really value your observations, your insight, your analysis, not just on the Middle East, but on all politics global and regional, |
| 1:46.6 | but because Putin is arriving in Iran, and this is several months after the beginning of |
| 1:53.3 | what the Russians call their special military operation in Ukraine, what the West calls |
| 1:59.5 | the Russian invasion of Ukraine, several months after the UN vote |
| 2:04.8 | where the majority voted with the United States to condemn Russia, but many, many countries |
| 2:12.3 | abstained. And when you look at the population totals of all of those countries that abstained, it, in fact, |
| 2:19.4 | constitutes almost half or maybe even more than half of the world's population. |
| 2:24.1 | Anyway, obviously, the U.S. was trying to evict Putin and Russia from the world economy, very harsh, |
| 2:31.1 | very draconian sanctions. And yet the Russian economy isn't in a free fall. And obviously |
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