Interview: CBS on US bombs Iran
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.
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No Iranian threat ‘other than having US regional interests challenged’
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…
Interviews: More Iran War articles: June 17-22
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…
Interviews: The Israel-Iran War, June 2025
*Al Jazeera English, June 19, 2025 *For a Bay Area TV network affiliate, KTVU, June 13, 2025*A 50-minute interview for a British podcast*A ten-minute interview for a radio show/podcast in upstate New York*For a national Indian news show, June 13…
Interviews for KPFA Radio on Middle East
* 20-minute interview with Kris Welch on recent Middle East developments [May 30, segment starts 1:06:45]* Two on recent developments in Israel’s war on Gaza, U.S. policy, repression of student activists, related issues: June 8 begins at 10:20 and May…
France to Break Away from UK and US While Recognizing Palestine as a Nation State
Inter Press Service, UN April 18, 2025, Quoted by Thalif Deen [source] “Dr. Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, who has written extensively on the politics of the UN, told…
Interview: Israeli PM Netanyahu visits White House seeking flexibility on tariffs
Singapore major morning news show (CNA Media Corps. 7 mins)
Interview: Civil resistance, pro-democracy struggles and Middle Eastern politics
Episode 45 – West Asia on a Powder Keg: Lessons from the Arab Spring With Professor Stephen Zunes. British podcast on civil resistance pro-democracy struggles, contemporary Middle Eastern politics, and other issues (1 hour)
Interview: Trump’s Student Crackdowns
KQSD-FM March 2025 (30 mins.) on the crackdown on antiwar student activists and related issues
Interview: Gaza, resumption of war and implications
KPFA-FM news March 23, 2025 (segment starts at the 10:30)
Interview: Ukraine, Palestine, and other issues
Ukraine, Palestine, and other developments March 2025 (segment starts at 31:30) for a community radio station in northern California
Interview: Trump’s policies on Israel/Palestine and power grab
Community of Chaos, New Zealand radio, March 18, 2025Hosted by an American expat, podcast in which Zunes discusses Trump policies ranging from Israel/Palestine to his dangerous domestic power grab
Interview: Trump Orders Strikes on Houthis in Yemen
Al-Jazeera Media View, March 2025: On the onset of the U.S. bombing of Yemen [source link is no longer accessible]
Interview: US Middle East Policy Developments
KPFA-FM News March 9, 2025: Interview on recent developments (begins 2:30-6:30)
RTVI interview
RTVI is a global Russian-speaking multi-platform media, which includes a news website and other digital platforms: 6 YouTube channels, 2 Telegram channels and accounts in all major social networks. It broadcasts in 160 countries with more than 350 broadcasting operators…
Interview: Can Egypt’s plan for Gaza backed by Arab League become reality?
Al-Jazeera English March 5, 2025 (28 mins.): On the Arab League’s summit and quite reasonable reconstruction and administrative plan for Gaza, which both Israel and the United States have rejected. This follows US President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly expel…
Interview: Status on the Ceasefire
Al Jazeera English, Feb. 27, 2025 [source link is unavailable.]
Interview: U.S. policies in the Middle East
A comprehensive overview, late 2024 with USFCA colleague Dr. Assim Al-Khawaja.
Interview: International Effects of Trump Presidency
OAR FM Radio, Community or Chaos late Feb. 2025:Zunes and New Zealand political science professor Robert Patman discussed the international ramifications of a Trump presidency — “a slow motion coup.”
Interview: Speaking of Palestine, Gaza Ceasefire
FM Radio (CA) Feb. 24, 2025: On the Gaza ceasefire, Trump and Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing plans, and related issues (segment starts at 14:30).