Jeremy Scahill

So what we've seen happen as Iran has engaged in retaliatory strikes

hitting at all these military bases on a regular basis.

And now it's gotten really wild because we're talking about oil infrastructure.

But just settling on the first part of it, military retaliatory strikes, I think that it's true that the Gulf countries dramatically underestimated what that was going to look like when Iran started striking back.

And I think that they're learning that the United States is not their protector and that it is completely dedicated to Israel.

And these Gulf countries continue to bend the knee to this whole thing.

They had UN Security Council resolution condemning Iran does not mention the terms United States or the term Israel.

at all in their resolution.

If you were to just read the statements from the Gulf countries, you would think that Iran, unprovoked, started a war in the entire region and not that the United States and Israel started massively bombing Iran, bombed a school, killing 165 children and teachers at the school,

Bombed Iranian oil facilities, creating a toxic black rain down in the country, has systematically assassinated the entire leadership of Iran, including moderate, what Iranians would call flexible officials that could potentially be the ones to negotiate an end to this whole thing.

And these Gulf countries have stood by and they've said nothing about it.

Why?

They're so kind of put in check by Trump.

They're so interwoven with the business deals.

They're so interwoven with the Trump family.

They've got the Jared Kushner relationships.

They have the Trump relationships.

And then they have their kind of role as pawns on the board of U.S.

hegemony in the region that they've willingly engaged in.

And those countries...