Israel and the U.S. government have been partners in conducting endless war, endless attacks against the Iranian government, military, economic, and diplomatic attacks.

Today, we're going to talk about it and we're going to talk about Iran's reaction.

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We can do this show with you, but not without you. We are joined

today by Professor Mohamed Mirandi. Mohamed is an expert on American Studies and post-colonial

literature. He teaches at the University of Tehran. Muhammad, welcome back. Hi, Brian. Thank you for

having me. Muhammad, I'm looking at a New York Times article from last week. Of course, this article comes

after the Vienna talks where the U.S. and Iran were having what was described as indirect

discussions. Iran would not meet directly with the United States on the issue of the U.S.

re-entry into the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear arms deal, as it's known here in the Western

media. Here's the headline of the article. I want to read the headline in a couple of sentences,

and then I want to get your reaction. Here it is. Iran rattled as Israel repeatedly strikes key

targets. Subtitle, recent attacks suggest that Israel has a clandestine network inside Iran

and that Iranian security services have been powerless to break it.

Here's the first sentences.

In less than nine months, an assassin on a motorbike fatally shot an al-Qaeda commander given refuge in Tehran.

Iran's chief nuclear scientist was machine-gunned on a country road, and two separate mysterious explosions

rocked a key Iranian nuclear facility in the desert, striking the heart of the country's

...