Click on Owen Jones “Just how far could the Iran war just spiral completely and utterly out of control? I mean, we are a few weeks in now. Obviously, Donald Trump thought it'd be over in a few days. That's not happening. Just what could this escalate to? I think it's worth interrogating this. I'm really delighted to be joined by Annelle Sheline who is a former US government official resigned over Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people and is also a research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft to do really brilliant work on I don't know opposing the world collapsing to mayhem. It's not the official description but how you doing?
Annelle Sheline: All right. How are you doing?
Owen Jones: Not too bad given
everything I suppose going on. Let's just I mean just in terms of how this
could spiral and it's always a kind of conversation to be had but kind of kind
of necessary I would say it's suggesting at the moment because what's happening
is the Gulf countries thought they'd be safe by having US bases that was like
the pact but it's actually done the opposite it's left them exposed but they're
getting hit kind of badly but they're not hitting back because they're I mean
just explain that dynamic because it's quite a unique dynamic and just to do
thewhat's happening with the Gulf countries. How much we know? I mean, there's
lot of censorship going on. So, what do you think the picture is?:
Annelle Sheline: Yes. So, it's an evolving picture. the Gulf
countries to this point have said, you know, Donald Trump, you are not allowed
to use the US military bases in our territory to launch attacks on Iran. And
also, we are not going to launch attacks on Iran. There have been some, you
know, there's been counter reporting. There's also been reporting some of these
may be false flag operations of of but but the official statement thus far from
the Gulf countries is we do not want to be even more of a target than we
already are. um due to the presence of the US bases but also I mean Iran just
recently published an an additional list of targets which are infrastructure I
mean oil infrastructure targets all of which have very significant US
investment which are arguably is why these are the particular facilities that
are targeted….
