Iran 2019 – All The Makings of Iraq 2003? Similarities and Differences – An Audio Interview with Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince. KGNU – Hemispheres, Middle East Dialogues. May 28, 2019

Iran, surrounded by U.S. military bases. 70,000 U.S. military personnel in the region..

Note – accidentally posted wrong interview, one from an earlier program. Changed it. Correct interview is below

Audio Interview. Iran 2019 – All The Makings of Iraq 2003? Similarities and Differences – An Audio Interview with Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince. KGNU – Hemispheres, Middle East Dialogues with Jim Nelson. May 28, 2019. Program begins 1 minute 35 seconds into the program.

Hear Ibrahim Kazerooni and Rob Prince on KGNU Boulder (88.5 FM, 1390 AM, Streaming at http://www.kgnu.org) on Hemispheres, Middle East Dialogues hosted by Jim Nelson, Tues, May 28, 2019 @ 6-7 pm Mountain States Time. The program is also available for streaming or downloading tomorrow at KGNU’s archives.

We have been talking about the region on this program for many years by now. As you indicated, the situation is very tense and very volatile. Even taking Donald Trump at his word that he doesn’t want war, but the charged situation is such that only one small spark is needed – wherever it comes from – for the whole region to escalate, spiral out of control, in large measure becaues the United States does not have any strategy to exit the crisis – Ibrahim Kazerooni – KGNU – May 28, 2019

Written transcript will follow.