Spoke to @esaagar & @krystalball about the meaning of, and the signals Tehran intends to send, the choice of Mojtaba Khamenei as the new Supreme Leader. A choice that was intended to signal Tehran's complete defiance and refusal to surrender.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIYL...
Cardinal Cupich condemns White House video about Iran war
www.ncronline.org/news/cardina...
.@bmalsaif, former CIA head @JohnBrennan, and I spoke about the devastating war with Iran on @InsideStory yesterday. This was before Mojtaba Khamenei was announced as the new Supreme Leader and I argued that Trump,'s war had likely improved his prospects.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DFc...
The American public overwhelmingly opposes Trump and Israel's war on Iran.
Among IR scholars, the opposition is even stronger:
86% oppose, of which 70% expressing strong opposition.
Only 10 % support the attack on Iran.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/06/i...
SNL cracks the code on Trump's strategy!
"We don't know [what's happening]! And that's the whole point! If we don't know what we are doing, then Iran definitely doesn't know what we are doing!"
Spoke to @owenjonesjourno about how Trump has already lost control over the war and that increasingly desperate measures are being considered as a result.
In comparison, the Iraq war plan didn't go off the rails until August 2003.
Lindsey Graham, a hero of neocons and Iranian monarchists, seems more unbalanced than usual as he promises the Fox viewers that the US is "going to blow the hell out of these people."
Graham has supported every disastrous war the US has started. This one might be the worst.
I can't think of a single example in history when an Iranian pretender to the throne sided with a foreign invader and then ended up ruling the country.
Nothing suggests that Pahlavi, who is seen here selling Iran out while Israel unleashes hell on Tehran, will be the first.
As we said, the country would be destroyed, thousands killed, and the US further embroiled in the Middle East - for nothing!
Recent U.S. Assessment Found an Attack on Iran Unlikely to Result in Regime Change
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w...
In Paris, Iranian monarchists waving Iranian & Israeli flags celebrated Trump & Israel's war.
A woman -unclear whether she is French or Iranian- is deeply angered, presumably by the immorality of supporting bombs on their own people while they celebrate in the safety of Paris.
Told @ABC that Trump had told regional leaders that this war would only last four days. Now, the admin is saying that the war can go on for weeks, even months.
This does not suggest that the war is going as well as the White House claims.
abcnews.com/video/130857...
Wow!
Look how fast gas prices are rising in the US as a result of Trump allowing Israel to push the US into a war of choice with Iran.
In January, it was $2.80. Now it's $3.41.
Trump may not care yet, but this will soon be impossible for him to ignore.
Excellent piece by @MAliKadivar:
The Fantasy of Liberation by War
alikadivar.substack.com/p/the-fantas...
Does Mark Carney know where he stands on the US-Israeli war on Iran?
Canada's messaging has been almost as muddled as that of the US, even though it's not a participant
www.middleeasteye.net/news/does-ma...
I will debate Matt Kroenig on Monday at 12noon ET, whether Trump's war of choice with Iran is justified, hosted by @ForeignPolicy:
foreignpolicy.com/live/kroenig...
Fascinating to watch 🇫🇷, then 🇬🇧, then 🇮🇹, now 🇩🇪 start to acknowledge what 🇪🇸's government recognised from the very start: the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless intervention conducted without regard for rules of war and without a strategy for what comes next.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before.
And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians.
At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’
Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war on Iran that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
Had a lengthy exchange about Trump's war of choice with Iran - and why it hasn't gone as he anticipated - with the former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove and Rosanna Lockwood.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3TV...
Former Canadian FM AXWORTHY: "The United States and Israel committed an act of aggression against the UN charter, that the evidence supporting it was not there, there was no imminent threat."
Told @ABC that Israel has been pushing for the US to go to war with Iran for the past few decades, and no one has done this more than Netanyahu. He takes credit for sabotaging both diplomacy and the deal the US struck with Iran in 2005.
abcnews.com/video/130730...
Joined the Newsweek podcast to discuss Trump's war with Iran, and thebottom line is that we are not being worried enough about what is likely to come...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=usld...
Tehran today, under Israeli bombardment. According to Iranian monarchists in exile, only regime supporters are killed in these indiscriminate bombings...
Supporters of Reza Pahlavi, who have sworn that this war they pushed for would not lead to the disintegration of Iran or a civil war, should note:
Trump has chosen to speak directly to Kurdish separatists.
He has chosen not to speak to Reza Pahlavi so far.
I was on BBC last night, following a clip with voices from Iran. All the selected voices welcomed war, saying they cheered every time they heard an explosion.
Those views exist. But when you ONLY air those voices, you are doing war propaganda.
And I told BBC that live on air.
Remember all the voices that said that there could never be a civil war in Iran? And who attacked those of us who warned of this risk?
It's the same voices that accused us of fearmongering when we pointed out the risk of a war.
And here we are...
Told @cnn that the US and the region would have been in a much better position if the JCPOA had been kept, or if Trump had taken the deal on the table last week that was even stronger than the JCPOA.
Trump instead chose war and let Israel decide the direction the US would go...
Life as a vassal is hard and unpredictable, as your destiny is in someone else's hands. Responsibility, however, is in your own hands, Europe, since you chose this life...
EU urges Ukraine to allow access to pipeline carrying Russian oil
www.ft.com/content/8f5f...
So the admin's argument is that they knew that Iran would attack the US IF Iran itself was attacked. So it was self-defense against an imminent attack (!!??)
Even the Bush admin did not sink this low.
This opens up for George W. Bush to run in 2028 as the "peace candidate"...
“This is not a monarchy in which the shah is gone & you take out all of the male heirs,” notes Parsi. “This is a system—not a particularly popular system—but nevertheless one with a security establishment that is not dependent on a single person or a single family.”
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
