Iran Update with Iran Experts Negar Mortazavi and Trita Parsi
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
Useful Idiots, LLC
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a live edition of Useful Idiots. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm Erin Mate. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Katie Halper. |
| 0:06.9 | And we're doing this live because things are so fast moving in Trump's regime change war on Iran, which of course, many of his top principles and allies will deny that it's a war. |
| 0:18.0 | But it is a war. |
| 0:19.3 | And Trump says it will continue until Iran's, quote, unconditional surrender. That's what he just announced today. |
| 0:26.0 | And so because things are so fast moving, we thought we'd come to you live today and we'll be joined by two very special guests, Iran analysts Nagar Mortezavi and Trita Parsi, who have a lot of expertise on this topic. |
| 0:39.9 | But first, before we get to them, we're going to do a breakdown of the week in a segment |
| 0:45.1 | we call the Friday Free For All, your end week dose of media madness. |
| 0:50.9 | And I don't think you can get any matter than all the various claims from the Trump |
| 0:57.0 | administration and their allies in trying to sell this war to the American public. Starting with |
| 1:02.4 | House Speaker Mike Johnson, continuing to insist that we're not even in a war. |
| 1:10.9 | Unbelievable. |
| 1:11.6 | We just had an important series of votes on the House floor. |
| 1:14.5 | As you know, the war powers resolution failed. |
| 1:17.0 | That is the right result. |
| 1:18.6 | We are not at war. |
| 1:20.0 | We have no intention of being at war. |
| 1:21.7 | The president and the Department of Defense have made this very clear. |
| 1:25.0 | The Department of War has made it very clear. |
| 1:26.6 | This is a limited |
| 1:27.9 | operation. It's a operation that's limited in its scope and duration. It has a very clear mission, |
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