Iran, Epstein, and a New Mideast War: Mehdi and Experts React
Learn
everything you need to know about about Trump’s second war in two months by
watching this Zeteo town hall from today. Zeteo put together a live stream with some expert voices
in-house and beyond to explain why Donald Trump launched a war that most
Americans do not support. The US president unilaterally and illegally declared war on Iran on Saturday after launching a
joint attack with Israel, bringing chaos and turmoil to an already unstable
part of the world.
Click on Prem Thakker : ‘Hello
everyone. Sending you all wishes of safety and care wherever you are today.
Thank you all for joining us in another Zateo town hall. Today the US and
Israel launched strikes on Iran, setting off a series of events that are still
unfolding as we speak. One such attack by the Israeli and US governments killed
over 80 students reportedly at a girl school. Iran's retaliation included
attacks on US bases in the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and and so forth. Debris has endangered
civilians in these countries and now Israeli officials are claiming that they
say that the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. History, as we see, is being
written and it's not yet clear who's going to be left holding the pen. We will
be live for the next hour. Please feel free to share questions with us wherever
you happen to be watching. We'll try to get to as many as we can. Later, I will
be joined by Nagar Mortazawi and Tria Parsi. But first, I will be joined by my
colleagues Mehdi Hasan and Swin Subub saying, [Question to Mehdi Hasan] My how are
you reacting to things? I know things are changing by the second, but when you
first saw the strike and now, what are you thinking about?"
Mehdi Hasan: Yeah, I saw
the strikes last night. I was in a hotel room in Atlanta heading here to Texas
for an event and I was uhI wasn't sure what it was, right, Prem? Because a lot
of the reporting, including from Swin, who's going to give us his take in a
moment, was is this going to be a smaller strike first and then they do a big
strike later. Is this Trump's way of bringing the quote unquote regime to the
table? Even though they were in the middle of negotiations, even though hours
before these strikes, the Omani foreign minister, the Omanis, for those of you
who don't know, don't tend to talk very much in public. The foreign minister of
Oman went on American TV and said, "You know what? The Iranians have
pretty much agreed to everything the Americans want. They've gone beyond what
Barack Obama got from the Iran deal." And yet, they still attacked, which
everyone should keep in mind when they hear American officials saying this was
about the nuclear program. A complete load of BULLSHIT! This is a huge attack.
Trump called it a massive wave of attacks last night.And Tom Cotton, Senator
Tom Cotton, the very hawkish Republican chair of the Intel Committee has said
today, "This is an attack that won't end in days. It's going to last
weeks." So, we are looking at a major attack. I've always worried that a
war with Iran would make the war with Iraq look like a walk in the park. I hope
I'm proven wrong. Something you said, Prem, stuck out to me, which is, you
know, history's being written, but we don't know how it's going to be written.
The problem we have, and I would urge all Zateo subscribers to keep this
in mind who are watching right now, is the media are going to tell you all. sorts of things about who's up, who's
down, who's won, who's lost. It's meaningless. This is the first few hours of a
major, major war. Remember what happened after Iraq? Remember George Bush
standing on a ship saying, "Mission aAccomplished." Remember the
people who mocked some of us saying, "See, it all worked out amazingly. We
took over the country. We got Saddam….Iraq was the disaster it was." Same
with Afghanistan. Same with Libya. This early basking of triumph doesn't always
last. Let's see what happens with American soldiers. Trump has talked about
American soldiers losing their lives possibly.…..’
