Today's Zero Hedge Debate, sponsored by J.M. Bullion. Today we have Scott Horton versus Meyer Javidon Farr.

He is an Israeli scholar, professor, and we will be debating the topic of how the U.S. should handle the situation with Iran.

We're going to be doing kind of a presidential style debate with myself, Clint Russell, the host of Liberty Lockdown, former vice presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party, and Ami Kozak, who will be handling the, I'm too biased, basically. So go ahead and introduce yourself, Amy.

Thank you, Clint. It's good to be here, and I will say I appreciate libertarian spaces because we tend to put ideas and arguments front and center, not character or ad hominem or any of that kind of stuff.

So looking forward to a civil discussion.

And yes, I'm here to provide the co-moderating roles as a bit of a balance to possibly, you know, Clint's position and echoing Dr. Jabidonfar's

position on Iran and Israel and Palestine, I am a comedian and commentator, I lean pro-Israel,

so it's just good to be here and looking forward to a balanced discussion.

Mr. Horton, if you'd like to introduce yourself to the audience.

Sure. I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute, the host of the Scott Horton show

and editorial director of anti-war.com. And I wrote the books, 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.

And I'm going to call you Maier just for ease. If you could introduce yourself to the audience as well.

Hi, my name is Dr. Meij of Adanfar. I'm an Iranian-Israeli researcher and writer and lecturer.

I've been teaching various contemporary Iranian history

and politics courses for the last 12 years

at Reikman University and I've also been researching

Iran-Israel relations both before and after the 79 revolution.

Well, interesting. I'm going to start with the strategic interests here. It's a point of

contention amongst libertarian audience in the non-interventionist camp, as well as many of the

America First or MAGA voters. What are the core U.S. national

interests at stake in its policy towards Iran, and how should these guide the choice between

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