“The Zionists Have a Gun to Trump’s Head”

Rumble link Bitchute link Former BBC broadcaster Tony Gosling and I agreed on some points, and disagreed on others, last night on Press TV. Below is a partial transcript. Press TV : Good evening. In tonight’s Spotlight, we examine a significant development in West Asia. The regional efforts for de-escalation between Iran and the U.S. and also resistance to U.S. secondary sanctions on Iran are increasingly beginning to overlap. Qatar’s Prime Minister is in Tehran discussing de-escalation, dialogue, and a phased maritime corridor through the Strait of Hormuz, while Russia says it will work with Iran and other countries to counter Washington’s secondary sanctions. So are regional countries beginning to take their security and economic interests into their own hands? Can Russia, China, and other powers prevent Washington from turning unilateral sanctions into a global policy? And are we witnessing the emergence of a regional and international order less impacted by the U.S. pressure? That’s what we’ll be discussing tonight with our guests: Kevin Barrett, editor of Al-Andalus Tribune of Saida, Morocco, and also joining us is Tony Gosling, historian and investigative journalist joining us from Bristol, the UK. I’m going to begin with Kevin Barrett, our guest from Morocco. Thank you so much for being with us. Let me begin by asking for your broad takeaway. Why do you think that the regional countries at this point are increasingly turning to Tehran directly to address de-escalation? Kevin Barrett: Well, this is really the result of what’s been a clear Iranian victory in this war against Israel and the United States. The aggressors achieved nothing. They bragged that they were going to get a regime change and install puppet governments, and nothing like that happened. Quite the opposite. Iran has shown that it is the one that has the control over the Strait of Hormuz. It has shown that it is the one that has its weapons protected, buried deep underground, where they’re in many cases impregnable. It has more manufacturing capacity to renew its weapons than the Americans and Israelis have to renew theirs. And the American bases in the region have been decimated and the Americans have retreated. So the writing was on the wall already just 48 hours after the dastardly surprise attack on February 28th. But it’s slowly sinking in all over the world that this has been the most significant U.S. defeat perhaps in all of American history and the most important victory for a country that’s working for a multipolar world. And so now the world sees that we’re heading for that multipolar world. The U.S. is run by blatantly irresponsible criminal forces. Its figurehead president is a certified narcissistic lunatic who you never know what he’s going to say one minute after what he said the previous minute. And so every country has to try to figure out who’s reliable, who can it actually deal with, who’s going to keep its word. Well, the Americans won’t keep their word. They tore up and shredded every deal that they had, including the MOU. And so now we’re in a world where it’s every country for itself. And the countries that used to have to worry about American pressure are now seeing that the whole world will be better off if we get out from under this dollar hegemony where the Americans have the ability to choke off people’s money flows. And so that’s the new world and every country is having to adjust to it and go straight to Iran to make those kinds of deals to renew the relations in the region. Press TV: That’s right. Now let me bring in Tony Gosling, our guest from Bris