Trump’s Long and Loony Press Conference and How He Has Not “Decimated” Iran’s Anti-Aircraft Capacity
We begin with Trump’s long press conference today ostensibly to congratulate himself for the daring and successful mission to rescue two downed pilots over Iran involving over a hundred aircraft with the loss off an F-15 E, 2 C-130/MC-130 transports, 2 AH-6 Little Bird helicopters, 2 Black Hawk helicopters shot up and an MQ-9 Reaper drone and a Hermes 900 drone lost in combat. Joining us to discuss how Iran’s anti-aircraft capacity is not decimated as Trump has claimed is Adam Weinstein, the Deputy Director of the Middle East Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. A former Marine deployed to Afghanistan, he previously worked as senior law and policy analyst at the National Iranian American Council. We discuss his article at Responsible Statecraft, “Planes and pilots down: Is the U.S. prepared for real conventional war?”
A Founder of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps on What is Not Being Done to Free Iranians From Their Brutal Theocratic Government
Then we examine Trump’s deadline of 8 PM EST Tuesday when he will begin his power plant and bridge destruction day to bomb Iran ‘back to the stone age’ leaving its people to ‘live in hell’ following his vulgar and bloodthirsty threats against the Iranian nation he is supposedly freeing from it’s brutal and repressive government. Joining us is Dr. Mohsen Sazegara, an Iranian journalist and pro-democracy political activist who was a founder of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and held several high ranking positions during the early years of the Iranian Revolution. He served as deputy prime minister in political affairs, deputy minister for heavy industry, deputy chairman of the budget and planning department before becoming disillusioned with the government in 1989 after pushing for reforms. He applied to become a candidate for President of Iran in the 2001 election and was refused. His reformist policies clashed with the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, eventually resulting in his arrest in early 2003. Following his release in August 2003, he moved to the United Kingdom and currently resides in the United States having become a US citizen. He joins us to provide insight into the working of Iran’s theocratic government and what is not being done to free the Iranian people from the Ayatollahs and the IRGC.