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The Duran Podcast

Why the U.S.-Iran War Has No Offramp w/ Jeffrey Sachs

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Why the U.S.-Iran War Has No Offramp w/ Jeffrey Sachs

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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, we are here with Professor Jeffrey Sachs.

0:04.0

I have Professor Sachs' information where you can follow him and his excellent articles in the description box down below and as a pinned comment.

0:12.5

Gentlemen, we have to talk about everything that is happening in Iran and the blockade of the United States Navy of Iran. So let's get into it.

0:25.2

Well, indeed. Let's get into it. And Professor Sachs has been discussing and writing and speaking

0:31.8

about the events of the last few extraordinary weeks. I mean, terrifying and in some ways terrible weeks,

0:41.4

and nobody has been doing it better than him. And we've had, over the last few weeks,

0:46.6

we've had an absolutely extraordinary attack against Iran launched in the middle of negotiations. We've had the murder of the Iranian

1:00.0

leadership that was carried out during that first strike, that we found an attrition war,

1:06.5

which it was clear that the President of the United States and his officials had not expected.

1:14.5

Then we had an announcement of a ceasefire.

1:17.2

Then we had more talks.

1:19.7

Those talks have collapsed.

1:21.6

And we're now in a situation where the United States has ordered a naval blockade.

1:29.2

And Alex, with us, has pointed out that what this amounts to is blockading the actual

1:35.4

original Iranian blockade, if one could talk it about that.

1:39.0

Now, the whole thing looks both terrible and utterly incoherent to me.

1:46.1

Perhaps we should stress the terrible rather than just the incoherent.

1:51.0

But there's no one better to talk to about all of this than Professor Sacks.

1:55.2

So, Professor Sacks, without further ado, let's discuss where we are, and perhaps you can tell us some things about how we go

2:05.0

to him. We are literally in Donald Trump's delusions. We're living out in real time. The madness of a president of the United States, the likes of which we've never

2:23.3

had in our history.

2:25.2

In fact, I'm not sure that we've ever had in the nuclear age, a leader of a nuclear

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