"Turning West Asia into a wasteland"" w/ Ali Alizadeh
Makdisi Street
Bayt al Makdisi
4.9 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
The brothers welcome the London-based Iranian analyst and journalist Ali Alizadeh to the show to discuss the history and context of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, internal dynamics within post-revolution Iran, the background of and political framework of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, and the scope and scale of damage being inflicted by US and Israeli forces on Iran as the current war assumes an increasingly attritional character, as well as Iran's capacity to retaliate against Israel and US assets and bases in and around the Gulf.
Date of recording: Mar 4, 2026
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| 0:00.0 | If they manage to destabilize Iran, if they defeat Iran, what are they going to do? |
| 0:05.8 | They're going to continue with Gaza. |
| 0:07.5 | They immediately will annex West Bank. |
| 0:09.8 | They're going to go inside Lebanon. |
| 0:11.4 | And I think there's going to be Lebanon back in 1980s, grand invasion of Lebanon. |
| 0:16.6 | And this time they're going to enter, Golan Heights, try to realize Corridor of David, which connects the Deru section all the way to Kurdish area in Syria and north of Iraq. |
| 0:28.3 | And what's better for Israel than turning West Asia into a wasteland for the next 30 years, for the unforeseeable future. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome everybody to another episode of the Maghasee Street podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | My name is Sari, joined as usual by my brothers, Osama and Karim. |
| 0:48.7 | And although we hate doing this kind of thing, we want to remind you, please, to give the show |
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| 1:02.3 | helps increase the visibility of the show. And we know for a fact that we're dealing with |
| 1:06.6 | a certain degree of suppression of the show. So the more visible our audience makes it, |
| 1:11.6 | the more the show can reach other people. |
| 1:15.5 | Our last review on Apple Podcasts was from two months ago. |
| 1:18.6 | Again, honestly, it's not for our egos. |
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| 1:24.4 | and as visible in all these algorithms as possible. |
| 1:28.5 | Thank you very much for that. |
| 1:35.6 | Our guest today is Ali, Ali Zadeh. I'm pronouncing it, sorry, in an Arabic way, I'm sorry. |
| 1:40.9 | I beg pardon for my Persian pronunciation, which becomes Arabic pronunciation. |
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