Scott Horton: Coups, WMDs, & CIA – A Deep Dive Into What Led to the US/Israeli War With Iran

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 179 minutes

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How did we wind up at war with Iran? Scott Horton explains. (00:00) The History of Why Iran Is Such a Global Focal Point (11:16) The Jimmy Carter Doctrine (22:29) The Brutality of the Iraq/Iran War (45:32) Bill Clinton’s Fatal Mistake That Drove America Into the Middle East (55:08) What You Don’t Know About the 1990s Terror Attacks (1:37:02) The Real Meaning of the Word “Neocon” Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com and author of Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism and Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. Paid partnerships with: Masa Chips: Get 25% off with code TUCKER at https://masachips.com/tucker iTrust Capital: Get $100 funding bonus at https://www.iTrustCapital.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Scott Horton, thank you. So we appear to be in the middle of a war with Iran. It's on pause,
0:35.9	thank heaven at the moment, but we are in
0:38.1	some sort of conflict with Iran. And whatever you think of that, I think it's important to know
0:42.4	how we got here, and that is, that context is wholly missing from most coverage, which is
0:49.2	crazy. It's a little bit like assessing a marriage the day the divorce is filed. Like, you can take
0:54.1	a side or not, but there's a
0:55.3	story there. And the question is, where do you get the story? And, you know, Wikipedia is not a
1:01.2	reliable narrator. I know it's full with historians. You're someone, I think, I consider honest and well
1:07.2	informed. You've written a book on it, enough already. But most important from my
1:13.1	perspective is that if you make a mistake, you will admit it. If you were wrong, you will admit
1:18.3	it immediately and apologize. And for me, that's the acid test. Like, is a person honest? I don't
1:22.4	know. Does he admit fault? And you do. So people can assess what they think of the story you're about to tell.
1:28.6	This is not a conversation for everyone.
1:30.5	This is a conversation for people who are interested in knowing the backstory, how we got here.
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