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🗓️ 16 June 2025
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Journalist Abby Martin returns to Bad Faith to discuss Israel's bombing of Iran, the hypocrisy of the "antiwar" Trump right receiving pushback from the Tucker Carlson wing of the party, Zohran's NYC mayoral debate performance & what his possible victory means for the left, & Trump's military parade.
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0:00.0 | Trump was intimately involved in this. The U.S. is completely involved in every single thing |
0:06.5 | that its colonial apartheid colony, its little colonial outpost, its military garrison in the |
0:12.5 | Middle East, does. It's absurd to think that Israel's acting without the U.S. It's absurd to think |
0:18.5 | that Israel somehow controls any aspect of U.S. foreign policy |
0:21.8 | at all. It's very obvious what's happening is that the U.S. has always wanted a war with Iran, |
0:27.0 | just like the U.S. hates all of the bordering countries with Israel. It needs that attack dog |
0:33.6 | to do what it cannot. And so Israel is this out of control nuclear-armed rogue state that is just |
0:40.3 | going around using all of its political capital that will ever have to attack all of its neighbors |
0:45.4 | and try to instigate war with Iran that the neocons have been clamoring over for decades, Bree. |
0:51.1 | And Trump, as we just saw, as you explained, Trump is now taking credit and saying, |
0:56.0 | well, you know, Iran didn't negotiate. So this is what the response has to be. And I want to talk about |
1:01.3 | what this negotiation even was, because we know Trump in his first term came in and completely |
1:05.5 | ripped up the Iran nuclear deal that Obama was negotiating, which basically said, according to |
1:10.6 | the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, every country that is a signatory to negotiating, which basically said, according to the nuclear nonproliferation |
1:11.7 | treaty, every country that is a signatory to it, which Israel is not, can enrich uranium at |
1:17.6 | safe levels for a safe civilian nuclear enrichment nuclear program for nuclear energy. |
1:24.2 | It is a national disgrace and humiliation to try to claim that Iran cannot enrich uranium |
1:29.3 | at all. And they know that that's a deal breaker. And so that's what Trump was basically saying. |
1:34.3 | You need to completely capitulate. And we will give you nothing in return. So basically what |
1:40.1 | they're saying is if you are not completely subservient and want the boot of the U.S. |
1:45.2 | Empire suffocating and paralyzing you with complete subservience to the empire, we will crush you |
1:52.0 | and destroy you. And that's exactly what we saw. We saw unprecedented military attacks |
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