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Trump Foreign Policy
The Progressive, August 5, 2025, by Stephen Zunes [source & audio] It would be a mistake to view the U.S. bombing of Iran and support for Israel’s twelve-day war on that country as simply about preventing the Iranian regime from…
Truthout, August 2, 2025, By Stephen Zunes [podcast & source] The UN treats the Polisario as the legitimate representative of the Western Sahara people. Washington’s designation of armed groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) has always been politicized, but it…
FO° Talks July 30, 2025 [25 mins.] Fair Observer’s Rohan Khattar Singh speaks to Professor Stephen Zunes about Iran, Israel and the United States… Trump has brought back the “Maximum Pressure” policy back on Iran with new sanctions, and for…
KPFA Evening News (Sunday) – July 27, 2025 [begins at 4:40]
Al Jazeera English Inside Story July 17, 2025 (16.5M subscribers):Zunes joins a Syrian and Israeli analyst on latest developments in Israel’s war on Syria.
Zunes Facebook Video July 17, 2025: Meanwhile, the Trump administration and the leadership of both parties in Congress continue to say yes. As the U.S./Israeli-imposed famine on Gaza increases, I keep getting solicitations to contribute to Democratic candidates who insist…
CNA (Channel News Asia) July 6, 2025 (9 mins.)Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said July 6 he hoped an upcoming meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump could “help advance” a Gaza ceasefire deal, after sending negotiators to Doha for indirect…
Inter Press Service, UN June 13 2025 (IPS) By Thalif Deen [source]Zunes quoted on the extreme efforts the Trump administration is taking to prevent the emergence of even a Palestinian mini-state alongside Israel, including threats of “diplomatic consequences” against countries…
Counterpunch, May 26, 2025, by Daniel Falcone [source]. Quotes Zunes on Trump’s dangerous militarism, despite isolationist rhetoric
July 3, 2025, Pacifica Radio/KPFA: Zunes discusses Iran and the United States following the latest bombing and war in a wide-ranging interview (starts at 5:40)
Counterpunch July 1, 2025: Zunes discusses the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran along with Professors Richard Falk and Lawrence Davidson.
Aired June 23-27, 2025, KTVU-2, Bay Area Fox affiliate: 3 interviews analyzing the U.S. bombing of Iran and the subsequent ceasefire Analysis: Israel-Iran Conflict Analysis: Israel-Iran Conflict and Response Israel-Iran Conflict and Ceasefire concerns
May 17, 2025, Stephen Zunes’s keynoteaddress at the 2025 Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation Spring Assembly
KTVU Fox TV-2, Bay Area station, June 24, 2025following yesterday’s ceasefire announcement.
WORT-FM Madison, WS, June 24, 2025: Negin Owliaei and Zunes examine the U.S. war on Iran and its broader context. (55 mins.)
Santita Jackson Show Sunday, June 22, 2025 [Second Hour] Also see Zunes’s Facebook notes on Iran, Israel and Palestine
CBS Bay Area affiliate KPIX June 22, 2025 [10 mins.] Zunes argues why the action was unnecessary and what the implications for the future might be.
Al Jazeera June 22, 2025 [source], 3-minute video,also World News: Zunes says the suggestion that Iran posed any kind of threat to the US is “totally nonsense”… “Iran has no capabilities of reaching the United States with its missiles or…
The Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 22, 2025, [source][Quoting Stephen Zunes] According to Stephen Zunes, director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco, Iran, too, “has a number of options” at its disposal. “They can attack US…
No Iranian threat ‘other than having US regional interests challenged’DazzlingDawn.com June 22, 2025: Stephen Zunes, head of Middle Eastern studies at the University of San Francisco, dismissed the notion that Iran poses any real threat to the United States as…