Tehran-based Professor Mohammad Marandi responds to Iran’s retaliatory strikes on US bases in Qatar and Bahrain on our show in real-time: “The Iranians had to retaliate.” Marandi calls the missile fires on the US’s largest base in the Middle East a necessary “show of strength” to deter further US-Israeli aggression and avoid full-scale war. He condemns Western media for “demonizing Iran to justify war” and warns that if Trump escalates, it could trigger a “global economic meltdown worse than the 1930s.”

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