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For more on the war in Iran, we're joined this morning by Behrouz Gamari.

He's a fellow at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center and also author of the new book, The Long War on Iran, New Events, Old Questions.

Welcome.

Great to see you.

Good to see you, sir.

Yeah, of course.

So a lot of questions for you, but let's just start with, you know, how do you view this war in terms of the sort of long history of the, you know, the

country of Iran, but also specifically with this particular Iranian government.

Do you think that it has helped strengthen their position in the state?

And how much does that, so Trump said at least that, you know, we sent arms to the Kurds and the Kurds were supposed to give them to the protesters.

He says, oh, I think they kept them for themselves.

Who knows what of that is true, but we have a lot of indications that there was certainly U.S.

and Israeli involvement and that the protests turned quite violent and were met with a violent assault.

We don't know the number.

They throw numbers 30,000, 40,000.

How much does that meddling from the U.S.