Category: Video

4 Talks: Iran, Israel, Palestine

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    * June 14, 2026, First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco on “U.S. Policy towards Israel/Palestine: How We Can Change It”
    * May 23, 2026, “Universities’ Acquiescence to Trump Administration Policies and Implications for Academic Freedom,” for the Peace & Justice Studies Association
    * From a seminar organized by the Arab Organization for Human Rights in which I made a short presentation on U.S. support for the repressive Sisi regime in Egypt
     * April 22, 2026, a conversation with Robert Malley, a key figure in recent Democratic administrations involved in negotiations with Iran and with Israel & Palestine, and Daniel Zoughbie of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California-Berkeley

20 Interviews: May-June 2026, Iran related

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Below are links to various radio, television, and podcast interviews about the U.S., Iran, and related issues during May and June 2026:

    * A 28-minutes with David Swanson’s Talk World Radio
    *  A 20-minutes with Kris Welch on KPFA-FM, starting at 38:40
    * Hour-long interview for the Scholars Circle on the war
on Lebanon with Yeghia Tashjian and Ervand Abrahamian
     *  Two recent segments for an Indian network news show:
     June 18, beginning at 5:20 & June 2, starting at 4:25
     *  On a Singapore television news channel
     *  On a Singapore radio news channel
 * Two short interviews on KPFA-FM News, Pacifica:
June 14, starting at 2 mins. & May 24, starting 2:28    

* For KTVU News (one of the Bay Area network affiliates):
        June 18: https://ktvu.com/video/fmc-sv3bvh10vi4mon19.amp
        June 8:  https://bit.ly/3RVvpr6
        June 7:  https://bit.ly/43n9zze
        June 1:  https://bit.ly/43UizvR
       May 28:  https://bit.ly/4egHjmR
       May 25:  https://bit.ly/3QcXklR
       May 19:  https://youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=J7tH8nNmCJI&ra=m
       May 13: https://bit.ly/43p5U3R
       May 9: https://archive.tveyes.com/18120/531666-150162/dfd53d40-1c93-45d8-9a79-ad2dd615c0c5/KTVU_04-20-2026_16.30.43.mp4

 Also, two much older analyses were depressingly prescient:
     * A 50-minute documentary from 2012 in which I and a dozen other scholars and analysts critique the U.S. threat of War with Iran: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yoITyAobBMI
     * A 2006 interview I did with Foaad Khosmood on U.S. policy towards Iran and the possibility of war: https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-shift-in-iran-policy-by-stephen-zunes/

Interview: Washington funds worsening repression and political prisoners in Egypt

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Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK, May 23, 2026
8 min. clip of Zunes and 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 from accountability despite mass arrests, torture allegations, deaths in custody, and the imprisonment of tens of thousands of political prisoners… every waiver, arms deal, and public embrace of Sisi sends a message that repression will carry no consequences.