Why is the US at war with Iran right now? With journalist Hooman Majd
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Show Notes
Hooman Majd is a journalist and commentator with some unique insights on Iran, by way of his personal background, so I thought I would ask him the question I posed to myself last week, and which will presumably go down in historical infamy: “Why did Trump go to war with Iran on February 28, 2026?”
We also got into various other dimensions of the war — the nature of Trump’s second-term ideology, the structure of his administration, the purported “negotiations” led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, issues around US and Iranian public opinion, Iranian diaspora dynamics, and so forth.
Here is Hooman Majd’s recent article in the Guardian, and here is Hooman Majd on X.
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