Category: Trump
Trump Foreign Policy
Changing Course: US Policy on Israel & Palestine with Dr. Stephen Zunes
Unitarian Universalist Church Center, San Francisco, June 14 (90 min.)
Interview: Fresh US strikes unlikely to bring Iran back to the table
Channel News Asia (CNA) Singapore, June 11, 2026, 7 min.: Zunes explains renewed US strikes on Iran are more likely to escalate the conflict than advance negotiations, raising risks for regional stability and global markets.
Interviews: Iran War Updates, 6 for KTVU
May 13: KTVU: Trump asks Xi for Iran War help, meeting in China May 25: KTVU: Trump claims Iran deal moving forward? May 28: KTVU: Tentative deal to extend Iran ceasefire June 1: KTVU: Iran talks suspended, Israel continues ceasefire…
Quoted in Wyoming Star: Operation Epstein Fury Parts 13 & 14. Iranian Red Lines.
June 24, 2026: “It is not going to be smooth sailing, but my sense is that the Trump administration recognizes that there is too much at stake for it to fail. The MOU is being attacked as a bad deal,…
Interview: Israel and Hezbollah Agree to US-Brokered Pause in Hostilities
Channel News Asia (CNA) Singapore, June 2, 2026, 14 min.: Israel and militant group Hezbollah have accepted a US proposal to pause hostilities. US President Donald Trump persuaded Israeli and Hezbollah leaders to de-escalate, after Iran threatened to end indirect…
Interview: Iran Hits US Base After Trump Strikes Tehran Military Sites
Firstpost America, June 1, 2026 [Zunes from 4-10 mins.]
Interview: Washington funds worsening repression and political prisoners in Egypt
Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK, May 23, 2026 full seminar, 55 min. Repression in Egypt is not happening in isolation, but is sustained through Washington’s continuous political and military support. Successive U.S. administrations have shielded the Egyptian government…
Interview: Trump’s latest threat against Iran
KTVU Fox 2, Bay Area TV affiliate, May 20, 2026
On Iran, Trump Has Backed Himself — and Much of the World — Into a Corner
Truthout May 5, 2026: The same kind of US hubris that led to the tragic wars in Vietnam and Iraq is manifesting itself with Iran today. U.S. efforts to force an end to the stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz…
Interview: US action risks return to full-scale war
KTVU, Bay Area Fox 2, May 5, 2026, 5 min.
The Strait of Hormuz and War in Iran: A Film Screening and Discussion
At Resource Center for Nonviolence, May 8, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz: Film screening of “Plate It With Silver,” and discussion led by Stephen Zunes (USF) and Nidhi Mahajan (UCSC), on the current war and histories of trade across the…
Interview: IRGC Survives: Why The Iran War Has Backfired for Trump and Netanyahu
Fair Observer, April 24, 2026 (32 min.) with 20-second soundbite: “The origins of Hezbollah was the direct result of the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon in 1982. And here’s the irony, they’re saying, ‘We have to occupy southern Lebanon to…
Interview: Iran Peace Deal in Doubt as Trump Rejects Tehran’s 3 Key Conditions
Firstpost America, April 28, 2026 (from 5:00-9:00)
Interview: The Iran War Has No Clear Endgame
Fair Observer Talks April 24, 2026, 46 min. [Also
Interview: Operation Epstein Fury Part 11. A Neither Dead Nor Alive Ceasefire.
Wyoming Star, April 24, 2026: Zunes offered a bleak long‑view: “It’s hard to see an end to the conflict any time soon. Hopefully, both sides now recognize they cannot achieve their aims through full-scale war, but the positions of the…
Interview: How Hawkish Democrats, from Schumer to Harris, Paved the Way for War with Iran
DemocracyNow.org April 23, 2026 (14 min.)