Trump’s Iranian Nightmare - Read by Eunice Wong

Trump’s Iranian Nightmare - Read by Eunice Wong

From The Chris Hedges Report Podcast by Chris Hedges

June 2, 2026 · 13 min

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The episode discusses America's military involvement in Iran and its implications, as read by Eunice Wong.

This article is read by Eunice Wong. You can find her work at www.eunicewong.actor . Text originally published May 14, 2026. The Chris Hedges Report is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Full Text: America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as were the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on a gross misreading of our adversaries, a catastrophic failure to understand the limits of imperial power and no discernable strategy. It swells the profits of the war industry, wasting billions of public funds, alienates our allies and erodes the global power and prestige of the United States. Dying empires , governed by the corrupt and the incompetent, are blinded by militarism and hubris. They are unable to read the world around them. They stumble into self-defeating cul-de-sacs — as we did in Iraq, Afghanistan and earlier in Vietnam — where military adventurism accelerates self-inflicted wounds. The war on Iran is one more chapter in our precipitous and ultimately fatal decline. Tehran’s 10-point temporary ceasefire proposal — brokered by Pakistani…

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Host: Chris Hedges

Guest: Eunice Wong

Topics covered

  • Middle East conflict
  • U.S. foreign policy
  • Iran
  • military strategy
  • war industry

Keywords

  • Iran
  • U.S. military
  • foreign policy
  • war industry
  • ceasefire proposal

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Organizations: The Chris Hedges Report

Places: Iran, United States, Pakistan

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