Expert Analyst: International Politics, Middle East & Nonviolent Action
On the U.S. decision to violate its 1947 agreement with the United Nations to allow foreign leaders to address the world body; and on Iran’s threat to establish a broader restricted zone, further threatening international shipping.
* A primer on Yemen with history explaining how U.S. policy helped create this mess (20 mins. starts at the 35:40 with Kris Welch) * Israeli and U.S. denial of Israeli violations of the Genocide Treaty * U.S. rejection of…
Al Jazeera English, Sep. 2026: https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/ahns18lWQ4 https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/Kr35z52fgx https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/2rbWx1qU2B https://www.instagram.com/reel/DduJ-9QjeXw/
BBC, September 3, 2026: implications of the escalating fighting between the United States and Iran.
Truthout, September 3, 2026: Party leaders are ignoring the three-quarters of registered Democrats who oppose providing military aid to Israel. House Democratic leadership has picked two prominent hawks to join the House Foreign Affairs Committee while also promoting an even…
Iran War Update, September 4, 2026 (15 mins. starting at 1:24)Changing U.S. policy towards Israel/Palestine, August 28 (15 mins. starting at 1:25)Harsher U.S. sanctions on Iran & increasing settler violence in the occupied West Bank, August 25 (4-mins.)
Zunes is quoted at length on Iran War developments in the Wyoming Star News, Aug. 28, 2026.
KPFA-FM, Pacifica Radio, Bay Area, Aug. 28, 2026 (15-min, starting at 1:25:10)
Source Links to these are no longer available. Al Jazeera, August 15, 2026: with Dr. Setareh Sadeqi, on Trump’s threats Al Jazeera, August 15, 2026: Trump said he’ll declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory Al Jazeera, August 15,…
CNA/Channel News Asia, Singapore television, August 10, 2026: Zunes’s analysis on Netanyahu’s rejection of the Trump-backed “peace plan” for Gaza on a Singapore news program this morning.
KPFA-FM News August 9, 2026, on the latest regarding the U.S. and Iran.
Truthout August 7, 2026, by Stephen Zunes: This is a disingenuous bipartisan effort to discredit the ICC and international humanitarian law as a whole. [Transcript & 15-min. audio podcast]
Here are a series of interviews from recent weeks on KTVU, television news in the San Francisco Bay area:July 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PQ9kl7MzpgJuly 10: https://bit.ly/4fWeQn1July 11: https://bit.ly/3U2IujfAugust 4: https://bit.ly/4wXaiUI
BBC August 4, 2026 (4 mins.)
Firstpost America | N18G, August 1, 2026 (8 Mins.)
Inter Press Service (IPS), July 31, 2026: Zunes told IPS many thousands of Iranians, Lebanese, and others have been killed as a result of the U.S. war on Iran but Americans–as in previous wars–tend to focus on U.S. casualties. Though…
KPFA, Pacifica Radio, Bay Area, July 31, 2026 (Zunes begins at 35:35)
WORT Radio, Madison, July 31, 2026: (53 mins.)
Al Jazeera Media View, July 28, 2026, 8 mins.Relations with Israel weaken as negotiations on hold while US reassesses Iran War and related policy.
Wyoming Star, July 28, 2026: Zunes traced the roots of the current impasse back to Trump’s original strategic error: “Unlike the 2015 nuclear deal – which was extremely detailed, enforceable, and left no room for ambiguity – Trump’s Memorandum of…