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How Iran Is Defeating The Washington Blob (S01E83)
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Friday, June 5, 2026, Istanbul
US lawmakers finally stood up to the Trump administration this week, voting in a surprise move to call on President Donald Trump to halt the war in Iran or seek Congressional approval.
Huge segments of official Washington are finally catching up with the overwhelming American public consensus that the war is a disastrous mistake. But why did it take so much and so long to overcome?
In today’s podcast, Washington-based scholar Sina Toossi and I discuss the hawkish Beltway consensus…
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