{"podcast":{"title":"The Chris Hedges Report Podcast","slug":"the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680","podcast_index_feed_id":6787680,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/778851.rss","website_url":"https://chrishedges.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/778851/fc17490b2e62007353401c34fecc8316.jpg","author":"Chris Hedges","episode_count":260,"summary":"Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T10:20:46.788952+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680"},"episode":{"title":"War With Iran - Read by Eunice Wong","slug":"war-with-iran-read-by-eunice-wong","published_at":"2025-06-23T18:41:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680/war-with-iran-read-by-eunice-wong","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680","url":"https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/war-with-iran-read-by-eunice-wong","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/166666048/279580572848ea5d1ba19868e81d268c.mp3","summary":"This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audiobooks lists of the New York Times, Audible, AudioFile, & Library Journal. www.eunicewong.actor Text originally published May 26, 2025 Full text: War opens a Pandora’s box of evils that once unleashed are beyond anyone’s control. The warmongers who ordered the strikes by U.S. bombers on Iranian nuclear sites have no more of a plan for what comes next in Iran than they had in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya or Syria. European allies, whom Israel and Trump have alienated with these air assaults, are in no mood to cooperate with Washington. The Pentagon, even if it wanted to, does not have the hundreds of thousands of troops it would need to attack and occupy Iran -- the only way Iran might be subdued. And the idea that the marginal and discredited Iranian resistance group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), which fought alongside Saddam Hussein in the war against Iran and is viewed by most Iranians as composed of traitors, is a viable counter force to the Iranian government is ludicrous. In all these equations the 90 million people in Iran are ignored just as the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria were ignored. They will not welcome the United States and certainly not Israel as liberators. They may hate the regime, but they will resist. They don’t want to be dominated by foreign powers. A war with Iran will be interpreted throughout the region as a war against Shiism. Soon there will be retaliation. Lots of it. It will come at first with desultory missile strikes and then attacks carried out by elusive enemies on ships, military bases and installations. Steadily it will grow in volume and lethality. The death toll, including am…","meta_description":"This article is read by Eunice Wong , a Juilliard-trained actor, featured on Audible's list of Best Women Narrators . Her work is on the annual Best Audio…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":195,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680/episodes/war-with-iran-read-by-eunice-wong/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-6787680/war-with-iran-read-by-eunice-wong.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}