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US Close To Fusing And Escalating Wars In Iran And Yemen (S01E154)
Monday, September 21, 2026, Istanbul
The US is signaling that it could once again escalate its war with Iran, prompted in part by advances by Tehran’s Yemeni allies against Saudi Arabia.
In the latest episode of badlands, I discuss the muddled, idiotic thinking by Washington policymakers who are fusing the Yemeni and Iranian conflicts—pushing the US deeper into the war.
Also in this episode, the first part of my interview with former Iranian political prisoner Morad Tahbaz, an environmental advocate who was locked up in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison for six years on trumped-up national…
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