Kamala Harris stated that Iran is the U.S. number one enemy as Israel pounded Lebanon and Palestine.

Donald Trump announced that he was ready to obliterate Iranian cities.

Regional war in the Middle East is rapidly expanding.

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. Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker.

Today we're talking once again with Professor Mohamed Mirandi to get his insight on the Middle East and what's happening inside of Iran.

Muhammad is an expert on American studies and a teacher, a professor at the University of Tehran.

Muhammad, welcome back.

Thank you very much for inviting me.

The news right now, Muhammad, is that Yov Ghaland, the Defense Minister of Israel, who has met with Lloyd Austin 80 times. We've just learned this 80 times in the last year.

That's, you know, multiple times per week, canceled the visit to meet with President Biden this week

because Netanyahu insisted that he canceled the visit until Biden talks to Netanyahu himself, and presumably

this is to agree upon a war plan directed against Iran. Anyway, I want to get your thoughts

if you have them about what it means for Galant's trip to be canceled. Does that have any relevance?

What is Netanyahu and what are the Israelis

planning? And what's the United States position on this? In the last 24 hours, Muhammad,

the United States, which had earlier insisted that it wanted a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon,

has retracted that and said, no, we're happy. We're cool with what the

Israelis are doing. Anyway, a tense moment, obviously. What do you think? What's your assessment?

Well, as expected, and as I said earlier, after Seid Hassan Nasor Allah was martyred, the Israelis have been beaten badly on the border with Lebanon.

They tried to enter Lebanese territory on many occasions with heavy air support and artillery support,

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