Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK co-founder, joins Ben Norton to discuss myths and misconceptions about Iran and the Donald Trump administration’s dismantling of the nuclear agreement. She also talks about her book “Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
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Thanks Medea. Very informative. Enjoyed your book. You're great at offering alternative vision of Iran "problem".
well,I thought not so many people know about dangerous game US plays with Iran but Medea knows it all.I give her credit to be a reliable database of currently evolving situation in Mid E regarding Iran.Basically ,MEK exploited billions of $ oil wealth from chaos created by US in war of Persian gulf .That chaos gave enough time to MEK to plunder Iraqi oil wealth.and now this huge wealth is being thrown away carelessly to J.Bolton and rest of neo cons and also democrats too.Sauid Arabia is another major donor to MEK as Medea said .Separatist coming from border with Pakistan ,Turkey and Iraq(Kurds) are funded by Israel an Saudi intelligence and rest of European and US intelligence .the terrorist attack on military parade was orchestrated from Denmark and most democratic part of Europe.Even Iran's objection to EU officials about housing these groups in EU did not find a away out for solution.As Medea said very small minor mistake and collision between US forces and Iran or their allies can turn into new whole level of full scale war.right now as Medea said there is a war between Iran and US,proxy and sanction wars!! it gives a minor relief when i see very few people like her speak out with knowledge.
When US wanna trap the fish in the net like Venezuela ,then they immediately announce regime change with a fake guy (that was never elected) as democratic opposition .but no one asks why US does not interfere in France?why no regime change in France?the attacks on yellow vests are even more brutal than in Venezuela .always sick double standard of US government .activists in Iran and US should unit for anti-war campaign
.i am not sure about oppressing women,but all women I knew for decades in Iran were rich and physicians and specialist making huge chunk of money.are there poor women there?well,hell yes,so much so like the same thing in US.then so what this will leads us into?into nothing actually!!!
do you know 1/3 prisoners in Iran are men who could not afford dowry and they are in jail.so how come women with such power are repressed? although it is so expensive to pay dowry these days that most divorces are based on mutual consent without payment due to rapid rise of imprisonment for men could not afford dowry .with dowry ,a woman can easily buy a car and a house,it can become a business too.
Usa = global terrorisim and problems
Tell me how they repress woman? Obviously you're just repeating what the MSM says. Any why is it anyone's business how they govern their country? The thought process of some people.
after you presented Iranian like you like !!!! What is Real in you?!!!!
Media didn't mention sexual liberation which is why mek went with celibacy in thier cult to counter that freedom in Iranian society.
Great interview, very honest, informed and courageous guest.
Just build a zoo large enough to put all clergy's in it and show them how to farm food. or any trade or skill.
The fact that there is a institution with excess funding to have a large group of people to walk the street and use there own perverted minds to impose excess force on 51% and to actually have a institution for Assassin's who work/kill together to keep Iranian population slaved. there was more killings with this new PLO government in Iran then ever since the invasions of the mongols. it is so sad to see a Empire disillusion so badly. woman covering never was the law in Iran just because they hit you on top of your head it wont make it real. That is why we get president Trump and you keep this up you will not like the next president.
Neither the US nor NATO, will never attack Iran. Nevah…
If they could, they would've done it already, a loooooong time ago. And the reason is one word = Russia
She's the one who deserves Noble peace prize, not assholes like Obama.
Throw off the yoke of AIPAC – The only path to peace is to wipe the slate clean and start over with a ONE-STATE with equal rights for ALL, including the RIGHT OF RETURN and REPARATIONS for Palestinians, not the fake two-state "solution" that Zionists like Dershowitz, Netanyahu, Chomsky, Sanders and Amy Goodman push – that's just continued slow-motion genocide of Palestinians.
Please explain how women are "repressed" in Iran. I don't see it. I do see quite a bit of female repression in the USA though.
Iran, the lovely country that wants to wipe Israel from the map.
Bravo. The best explinaton ive ever heard. Mamnoon
As a veteran Middle East journalist, who's been traveling to Iran since 1996 (only 2nd American to do so after '78 Revolution) she's 100% correct.
Before demogoguery destroyed the Iran Agreement, sabotoge by members of Congress & Senate (not coincidentally, mostly Jewish on Dem side, Christian-Fascist on GOP side) teed it up perfectly.
Hey lady, say all you want about the evil Trump, MEK, Israel, and others. But stop kissing the IR Mullahs' butt.
Why do we even expect, or feel that people need to like America?
I recall that this came up about the French! What? You can’t take a little bit of ‘unfair’?
Of course I didn’t experience this at all, but it seemed to have actually bothered my
brother quite a bit!🤣 I ought not laugh, but he was very handsome, and accustomed
to women lavishing quite a lot of attention on him! Those baby boomers were really babied!
Pelosi and Schumer really couldn’t do more damage to the Democratic party. They may as well be republican operatives!
This absolute insanity in which these incredibly crazy people insist that people be punished!
The #USA also bullies other people into sanctioning their target by saying, we’ll sanction you, if you don’t sanction our target!
This idea of economic strangulation has simply got to be exposed as one of the most despicable, I think we should call it what it is!
A war crime! Plus, wake up! America is NOT very well-regarded in the world! I don’t like it, either! What is this obsession with other people
not liking a country that has brutalized it? My God! I don’t like America, and I’m American! It would have been nice to be a child growing up in
a country like Sweden, wherein they at least take care of each other! This place doesn’t even take care of it’s own citizens! It upset me as a child,
and it upsets me now! Why can’t we decide that ALL public schools should be excellent, and take pride in that?
The only way to make sense of it is to look at who organized this place. As Anthony Hopkins said, when asked about misperceptions of the English,
I am not quoting him, but essentially, “People think that we’re really nice! When of course, we’re anything but! Otherwise we wouldn’t have done such
terrible things all over the world! “ Which now, we’re evidently going to kill! I don’t know how these people can look their own children in the face!
I don’t understand what is so bloody difficult about reorganizing our planet so that we don’t destroy it, and needlessly! I’m not a psychologist, but I
wonder about these people who seem to enjoy Donald Trump’s cruelty! Do they like Authority? Do they admire it? Is it stupidity, with Pelosi?
I simply cannot wrap my head around it at all…please join Code Pink. You probably know this, but I was lucky enough to have had a Father that made
this observation, “ People who help other people are the happiest! “
Medea Benjamin <== H E R O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At least there are no "gays" in Iran.
Clearly most Iranians are great people !!
Why does Israel want to destroy Iran and vice versa?
Great job of pointing out a lot of truth. How about telling us who is responsible for these criminal decisions? Obviously not our duly elected puppet leaders. Why are you holding back? Could it be that you want to get paid for covering for the oligarchs that are responsible for this sick eugenics program that is being implemented on the people of the earth. Research Malthusian policies.
Medea Benjamin … A peace activist and a lovely person.
Medea Benjamin is an amazing person. She is undoubtedly a good, honest and sincere person.
USA is the leading global terrorist & number one sponsor of terrorist groups & a warmonger country that is responsible for killing millions of innocent civilians around the world.
Iran's government I'd the first ISIS that came to power by British & Israel, is an apartit and fshist government. Both Urop and US were supporting them and still trying to support them .They were playing their best in the western agenda'. They did kill many peoples in Iran and even killed some opposition leaders in Urope . The Amnesty international should answer for not doing their jobs right. It's a shame. Iranian government has nothing to loose ,because they do not care for it's people and the country. Iran is for sale by these tirant people. They do not care if Iran become like Siria. IF the Western help is really januan !!!? They should political bicoting the government not the people.
STOP BLINKING 100 M an HOUR! also don't agree with most of what you said.
Iran does not use petrodollar and that is why there is a sanction.
You Failed to address “petrodollars†the real reason why US
is against Iran.US replaced gold with petrol transactions to back its currency. Therefore it’s, and hence the world economy, is tied to all petrol transactions being done in US dollars. Why did they do that?!? Well, because since the largest reserves of gold where found to be in Russia and dollar needed to be stronger than other currencies, a new reference was needed. So, the gold standard was dropped (and with it the Fort Knox went in dis-use and finally South Africa could be freed from the white Afrikaners, that believed South Africa was their God given land). As you do mention, Saudi Arabia is amonarchy and does whatever US tells them to do but Iran does not. While dollar was used to promote world economic growth its was all ok and good, but when US starts to use its economic power to bully other countries and wage war on the poor, while supporting racist, Fascist, religious or monarchist regimes like its two closest "allies" in Middle east, then it should come as no surprise when there is resistance. Meanwhile the US is acting like that big fat bully in the school yard that has Israel and Saudi Arabia as its "trusted friends" with England, Canada and Australia as his favourite" brown noses" and Iran is the latest new weakling that has, so far, refused to kiss ass. The rest of the world is watching on the side lines, ready to resist but doesn't know how…..not yet.
I was a freshman in college the year just before the Iranian Revolution happen. There were a number of Iranian students at my school and lived in my dorm. They were extremely nice people. If you asked one for a cigarette, they would give you a whole carton from boxes they brought with them! LOL!
The real question is, why is the mainstream media aiding and abetting the false narrative of Iran?