TRAILER: Who’s the Real Bully of the Middle East?

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

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This week on The Intercept Briefing, host Akela Lacy speaks to Iranian American author Hooman Majd about the Israel–Iran ceasefire, Trump’s role in escalating the conflict, and whether diplomacy can survive.

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0:00.0	A ceasefire between Israel and Iran appears to be holding for now.
0:06.0	President Donald Trump announced it after dragging the U.S. into the conflict and ordering strikes on Iranian nuclear sites with 30,000 pound bunker busters.
0:15.8	The Israeli attack on Iran came just days before Iran and the U.S. were set to restart nuclear talks in Oman.
0:23.1	You don't have to be anti-war to understand that diplomacy in this case would have been better.
0:28.1	This week on the intercept briefing, I talk with Iranian-American writer Human Majd,
0:32.9	about how the U.S. and Israel obliterated little but a path towards peace.
0:38.0	How do you create an incentive for the Iranians to not build a bomb?
0:41.2	By attacking Iran, you've destroyed the diplomacy part, and now you've destroyed the incentive.
0:46.8	Can diplomacy still work?
0:48.3	Listen to the full conversation on the Intercept Briefing wherever you get your podcasts.

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