1/4 of an Iran Debate

On April 1, 2010 I participated in a panel discussion at the University of California at Riverside titled “Obama’s challenge: Iran, Nuclear Weapons & the Mideast” with Reese Erlich, Larry Greenfield and Christopher Records – here is some of my part. Thanks to Mansoor Sabbagh for the video. Reese Erlich’s part here.

Author: Scott Horton

Scott Horton is editorial director of Antiwar.com, director of the Libertarian Institute, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan and editor of The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019. He’s conducted more than 5,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna Horton. He is a fan of, but no relation to the lawyer from Harper’s. Scott’s Twitter, YouTube, Patreon.

6 thoughts on “1/4 of an Iran Debate”

  1. Precise, concise, articulate, splendidly presented–and most importantly, on target on every point but one, to wit the cartoonish sketch of Sadr, reflecting the establishment's own naive view unfortunately.

  2. Wonderful summary by Scott. He's good at it because he's had to make these same basic points to so many audiences so often. Perhaps it's time to look past the facts and recognize that the move to war is not based on facts. Enrichment is just an excuse; the problem is Iran's driving while Muslim problem. So long as Iran exists as a single state, so long as it constitutes a remote threat to Israel, and a direct threat as a sponsor of Hezbollah, there will be calls for war. If they gave up enrichment tomorrow the drums for war would go silent- just for a while. Then they'd start up again.

    The people on the other side of this debate don't care if Iran enriches uranium or not. It's just a handy stick. If they closed their current program they'd be accused of having a secret one.

    Conversely, if they deep-sixed Hezbollah and abandoned Syria, and kicked all the Hamas people out of Tehran, all this talk would disappear faster than a pile of snow in the Russian summer.

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