News Brief: US Media, Top Dems Assist Trump and Israel's Unprovoked Attack on Iran

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this public News Brief, we detail how the NYT, Washington Post, and CNN reinforce every faulty premise of Israel's attack and how top Democrats in Congress and former Harris aides either ignore Trump and Israel's massive escalation or openly support it, showing once again the scope of debate in our politics and media ranges all the way from A to B.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a Citation's Needed News Brief. I am Nima Shirazi.
0:07.3	I'm Madam Johnson.
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0:22.7	100% listener funded. We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full-length
0:28.2	episodes of citations needed. And today, Adam, we are going to be discussing Israel's attack on
0:36.2	Iran, which occurred in the early morning hours of Friday, June 13th,
0:43.3	Tehran time, Iran time.
0:46.3	That would be Thursday evening, June 12th on the East Coast of the United States.
0:53.3	And we have already seen coverage that kind of frames the story the way Western media
0:59.9	wants to frame the story, of course, with parameters set by Israeli officials and U.S. officials
1:05.5	all through the night, Thursday night, into Friday morning.
1:13.5	We saw major news outlets call this a preemptive strike, sometimes with quotes, sometimes not. Preemptive means to stop an imminent attack.
1:21.9	Iran was not about to attack Israel. Iran has zero nuclear weapons. Israel has an arsenal of nuclear weapons
1:28.5	that is totally unsafegarded, unmonitored, undeclared. Iran has none of that. It is also a member
1:35.0	of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. It has agreements with the IAEA, which monitors nuclear
1:41.2	materials and assesses their use for civilian or military purpose.
1:45.8	At no point has the IAEA said that Iran has any nuclear material enriched to weapons grade.
1:52.2	It does not have any nuclear weapons.
1:54.1	It is not manufacturing nuclear weapons.
1:56.2	Israel is not a signatory to the NPT.
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