Iran Analyst: Regional War is Coming Unless Israel Stops Its Attack
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Prof. Marandi of the University of Tehran says a larger war, involving Iran, Hezbollah and others, is becoming more likely by the day as Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza. President Biden is now visiting Israel, doubling down on the United States’ unconditional support of the apartheid regime. Days after the Un documented how Israel had struck schools and hospitals where Palestinians had taken refuge, a major hospital suffered a direct hit, killing more than 500.
Brian Becker 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 | Days after the United Nations documented that Israel had struck a hospital where thousands of |
| 0:08.9 | Palestinians had taken refuge in Gaza, the hospital suffered a direct hit yesterday. |
| 0:16.5 | Five to 800 people are confirmed dead. Many, many more are injured. |
| 0:21.6 | Huge numbers of those who are dead and wounded |
| 0:25.6 | are children under the age of five and their mothers. |
| 0:30.6 | We need a new system. |
| 0:32.6 | We need a new society. |
| 0:34.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:39.3 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to the Socialist program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. Today we're talking with Professor Muhammad Mirandi. |
| 1:13.6 | He is an expert on American Studies in post-colonial literature. |
| 1:17.7 | He teaches at the University of Tehran in Iran. |
| 1:21.7 | Professor Mirandi, welcome back to the Socialist Program. |
| 1:25.1 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:27.4 | Muhammad, the people of the Middle East, the people of the world, certainly even people |
| 1:33.3 | inside the United States are shocked over what's been happening to the people of Gaza in the |
| 1:39.3 | last nine or ten days. There's no question at all that the Israeli defense forces |
| 1:45.6 | are engaged in collective punishment |
| 1:48.6 | against a civilian population. |
| 1:51.3 | People in Gaza, two million of them live there. |
| 1:54.2 | Most of the people, or at least half, our children, |
| 1:57.4 | are under the age of 18. |
| 2:00.2 | And now we have this terrible attack bombing of a hospital |
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