3692 - Iran War Spirals After Trump Tanks Diplomacy w/ Trita Parsi
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It is Tuesday, July 21st, 2026. My name is Emma Vigeland, in for Sam Seder, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live, steps, from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, will be with us to discuss the latest on Trump's war in Iran. War on Iran, rather. Also on the program, the Pentagon has been covering up troop injuries in the Iran war, as U.S. intelligence tells the White House that more bombing isn't going to soften the Iranian position.
With a lot more.
You consider that? Israel's far-right finance minister, Smotrich, brags about how the U.S. 's war on Iran is ideal for them. Because Israel doesn't have to get involved. Thanks for saying that out loud, buddy. Israel has killed at least 10 Palestinians in the past 24 hours as half the Israeli government joins marches at the Gaza border, calling for settlements. This is not a Netanyahu problem. This was to pressure Netanyahu to do this. Some good news, though. A federal judge has put Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Brothers on hold after a lawsuit from 12 state attorneys general. A coalition of billionaires led by Google co-founder Sergey Brin are launching an $87 million ad campaign against California's wealth tax ballot initiative.
Trump says he will impose a 50% tariff on Canadian goods because they hate our cars. The DOJ is opening an investigation into Harvard giving financial aid and accuses DSA of collaborating with them.
And Amy Goodman.
You see where this is going, right? Yeah. The Trump administration is killing a swath of federal energy efficiency programs as your electric bills explode. The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin, is launching an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's intelligence work for foreign governments. Interesting. And lastly, the Trump administration sought phone records of New York Times reporters and their families after they investigated the plane that Qatar gifted to him. All this and more on today's Majority Report. Welcome to the show, everybody. It is... Newsday Tuesday. We recorded this conversation with Trita Parsi earlier this morning. It was super informative about the latest on the Iran war, the endless war that Trump has dragged us into.
But let's start here. As I should say, though, Sam is fine. He will be back. It seems like it's going to be we can give a timeline, right? This week and next week, he's going to be out.
Yeah, somewhere around the 31st.
Somewhere around there, yeah. So you're stuck with me. You're stuck with me. It'll be a great episode when he does come back though. And I will be taking a vacation after that for a little while. What?
I mean, how do you know it's going to be a great episode?
I guess that's true. He could be so rusty.
Well, it's good to say that, though.
I mean, yes.
It might be horrible news that day.
It could be. It could be. Although the pattern tends to be that horrible news comes when he's out.
You know, it's going to be a great show. We've got a lot to cover. All that stuff. That's just shit you say.
Yes. Good job promoting the show, producer Brian. Less of a good job on doing that, Matt.
I'm just trying to be real.
I understand. People appreciate our honesty, I guess. So right now in the House, Mike Johnson and Russ Vogt are trying to get Republicans on board with Trump's bag of goodies in the reconciliation package, which includes a $95 billion chunk in supplemental funding for the war in Iran and also farm aid caused by That is necessary because Trump raised fertilizer prices and energy prices so much from this war in Iran. So ripping us off, ripping the taxpayer off.
Further in consolidation of farms.
Yep. And the reason that they need this aid is because, as I mentioned, of Trump's own choices.
Suffice to say, there won't be more small farmers in business right now as there will be. There'll be fewer in the coming days.
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