We need a new system. We need a new society.

We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago,

but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Today we are talking with Professor Muhammad Mirandi, an expert on American studies.

He teaches at the University of Tehran.

We're going to be talking about the recent developments in the U.S. Israeli war against the people of Iran,

the latest developments.

Muhammad, welcome back to the Socialist Program.

Thank you very much for inviting me. It's always a pleasure of being on your show, and I've been on your show for quite a long time now.

You are.

You are one of our favorite guests, and we've seen you in other media outlets recently and we think it's important

because the people in the United States and the people in Europe, but especially in the United

States, the source of this aggression along with the Israelis, they don't get to hear the Iranian

people. They don't get to hear the Iranian perspective. They're spoon-fed this propaganda,

these war-point, war talking points as if it's the news when, in fact, it is propaganda.

So we're very, very happy to have you. I'm looking at the New York Times right now,

Mohammed. Uncertainty in Strait, meaning Strait of Hormuz, escalates as U.S. and Iran trade threats.

Second headline, oil jumps as Iran resist Trump's offer to help ships through Strait of Hormuz.

I like the way they couch it as an offer.

Anyway, the Wall Street Journal at the same time

says Trump is going for it. He's going to, quote, escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz

regardless, no matter what Iran says. Anyway, with all of that sort of threat of escalation, and at the same time, there's been

lots of negotiations, you were in Islamabad for where some of the talks took place.

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