#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

Debate on Iran war between Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz. Scott
Horton is the author and director of the Libertarian Institute,
editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show,
and for the past three decades, a staunch critic of U.S. foreign
policy and military interventionism. Mark Dubowitz is the chief
executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, host of the
Iran Breakdown podcast, and a leading expert on Iran and its
nuclear program for over 20 years. This debate was recorded on
Tuesday, June 24, after the Iran-Israel ceasefire was declared.
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Introduction (00:36) - Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections (08:02)
- Iran-Israel War (16:45) - Iran's Nuclear Program (48:37) -
Nuclear weapons and uranium (1:00:40) - Nuclear deal (1:26:14) -
Iran Nuclear Archive (1:48:50) - Best case and worst case near-term
future (2:24:15) - US attack on Iran - Operation Midnight Hammer
(2:47:48) - Nuclear proliferation in the future (3:08:46) -
Libertarianism (3:21:35) - Foundation for Defense of Democracies
(FDD) (3:37:10) - Trump and Peacemaking process (3:42:08) - WW2
(3:55:08) - WW3