Republican lawmakers in Congress are reacting to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post advocating for the genocide of Iranians in varying ways, including defending, spinning, and denying its contents, with some also giving full support to the President’s threats and others — including some in leadership positions — issuing no response at all. Trump has set a deadline of 8 p.m.
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The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II. The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion, more than the combined budgets of the next nine highest-spending countries. The Trump administration’s…
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On Monday, President Donald Trump threatened to jail reporters who spoke to a supposed “leaker” in the administration and reported on a missing U.S. airman in Iran over the past weekend. The airman in question was one of two who were ejected from their aircraft after it was shot down by Iranian air defenses, just one day after Trump had claimed those defenses were essentially obliterated.
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From the Trump administration’s lies and flip-flops to social media feeds filled with AI slop and misinformation, it is infuriatingly difficult to get accurate and honest information about what is actually happening in the US-Israeli war on Iran. But award-winning journalist, lawyer, and former TRNN board member Dimitri Lascaris has been reporting on the ground in Iran for the last two weeks, from the Strait of Hormuz to the Minab elementary school where US tomahawk cruise missiles killed 168 students and teachers on Feb. 28. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Lascaris about what he’s seen in Iran, and the sides of war people in the West are not seeing.
Guest:
Dimitri Lascaris is an award-winning lawyer and journalist based in Montreal, Canada, and Kalamata, Greece. Lascaris was named by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as one of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada, and by Canadian Business Magazine as one of the 50 most influential persons in Canadian business. For ten years, while practicing law, Lascaris served as a Board member of, and correspondent for, The Real News Network. He is now a freelance journalist and host of the YouTube channel Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris, reporting on Western government criminality.
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Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris YouTube channel
Maximillian Alvarez & Dimitri Lascaris, TRNN, “This Canadian journalist is in Iran to show the sides of war corporate media won’t”
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Studio Production / Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
Transcript
The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Maximillian Alvarez:
Welcome back to the Real News Network. I’m Maximillian Alvarez. So the US-Israeli war in Iran is now in its second
US Rep. Yassamin Ansari, the lone Iranian American Democrat in Congress, said on Monday that she will soon introduce articles of impeachment against Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth, the most prominent cheerleader of President Donald Trump’s illegal war on Iran. In a statement, Ansari (Ariz.) said that Hegseth has “repeatedly” violated his oath of office and his duty to the Constitution.
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