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Kevin Barrett discusses the implications of Trump's military actions in Iran and the media's response.

Rumble link Bitchute link TruthJihad link Live Press TV interview broadcast 6/11/26 @13:15 pm Quds Time KEVIN BARRETT: Well, once again, we’ve seen that Trump and the Americans are lashing out in frustration because they’ve lost the war. They lost within the first 24 to 48 hours, and they have no more realistic options. They’ve bombed all the military targets they can bomb with massively diminishing returns, and so now they’re going after civilian targets. The New York Times just reported on its front page this morning that the destruction of two reservoirs in Bamani, in southern Iran, appears to be a war crime. If the New York Times is telling us that the American government is committing an obvious war crime by targeting civilian drinking water , and they’re putting that on their front page, you know there is some dissension going on, and some strategic problems, afflicting the command and control of the American empire. So basically Trump is lashing out, vacillating between ridiculous exaggerated threats and equally ridiculous exaggerated claims that peace is at hand so the markets should be happy in order to help Trump’s and the Republicans’ prospects in the upcoming…

People in this episode

Host: Kevin Barrett

Topics covered

• war crimes
• Trump
• civilian targets
• Iran
• political strategy
• media coverage

Keywords

• Trump
• war crime
• civilian targets
• Iran
• New York Times
• Bamani
• World Cup

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Organizations: New York Times

Places: Iran, Bamani

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