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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Tonight we are joined by Dr. Assal Rad, scholar of Middle East History, she works on research and writing related to US Foreign policy issues, the Middle East and contemporary Iran. He writing can bee seen in Newsweek, the National Interest, the Independent, Foreign Policy and more. She has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CNN, NPR. She completed a PHD in history from the University of California Irvine in 2018 and is the Author of State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran. Join us for a in depth conversation.you can follow Assal here:https://x.com/AssalRad
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0:00.0 | Okay, I think we're finally into the mainframe here. |
0:07.2 | Okay, cool. |
0:08.8 | I'm still, I don't have a producer, so we're kind of figuring this out on the fly. |
0:13.4 | Hello and welcome to Colonial Outcast, the anti-imperialist podcast that will be collaborating on this episode with Mint Press News. This is an important |
0:22.6 | issue that is a hawkish foundation of the U.S. foreign policy in West and Central Asia, Iran. |
0:30.0 | Its nuclear weapons program, also the axis of resistance, a conglomeration of loosely affiliated |
0:36.9 | proxies, though I disagree with that |
0:38.6 | precise term, that challenged U.S. and Israeli policy in the region. And as the drums beat to bomb |
0:44.6 | Iran so that Tehran comes to the negotiating table and withdraws military resources from the |
0:50.6 | access to the homeland as a fleet of $1 billion B2 stealth bombers, which can deliver |
0:56.5 | 30,000 pound massive ordinance penetration munitions to underground hard sites. |
1:02.2 | Stage out of an air base in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. |
1:05.8 | And as the U.S. moves another two carrier strike groups to the Persian Gulf. |
1:09.9 | And, yeah, it keeps going as the U.S. |
1:12.5 | stock market absolutely tanks and your grandmother loses her 401k plan. Fox News has a reassuring |
1:19.8 | message for you. It's a moment of Zen. K people who are depending those, those retirees, all of that, |
1:26.2 | just talking plain speak with them. Look, when this nation used to go to war, |
1:30.7 | people in this country would support the war effort with their materials at home and making |
1:35.8 | things for weaponry and all of that. We've got to do 100% buy-in over this bumpy period. |
1:41.6 | Just communicate. |
1:43.5 | Excellent. Just communicate. |
1:45.3 | So guys, tighten your belts and do your fascist, I mean patriotic duty as oligarchs |
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