Expert Analyst: International Politics, Middle East & Nonviolent Action
The Wyoming Star, Aug. 8, 2025, piece by Joe Yans, quotes Zunes: But why should a bilateral peace process between two non-Middle Eastern states be co-opted into a framework that was originally designed (at least nominally) to normalize relations between…
VIDEO: Resistance with Metta Spencer July 2025, featuring Zunes, Jorgen Johansen, and Jill Carr-Harris, on the role of strategic nonviolent action in challenging the crises facing the world today. Also see his overview of recent developments: The Power and Value of…
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…
KTVU July 21, 2025, Bay Area network affiliate [begins at 2:00] As fears of hunger in Gaza grow, countries are calling for an end to the war. In a joint statement on Monday. Twenty-five nations have described recent deaths in…
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…
Civic Media Breaking News Jnne 21, 2025[24 mins., also on Facebook and YouTube] Civic Media carried a special report Saturday evening, anchored by Todd Allbaugh and joined by Stephen Zunes, a professor of politics and international studies at the University…