Sep 2, 2026 · 5 min · 5 segments
U.S. attacks wedding in Iran. Are Washington and Tehran heading for more escalation? Negar Mortazavi joins Aljazeera
Negar MortazaviGuestThe Iran Podcast HostHost
Two wars down, and that was one of the objectives, or at least the talking points pushed out by the Israelis, by the Americans.

But to think that you can somehow manufacture or engineer this uprising the moment you want it, when you come with your bombs from the sky, suddenly people rise up, it's more a scene out of a movie, and it just didn't materialize last year in the 12-day war, June of last year, and also this year.

I mean, this was promoted as a regime change war, and that just didn't happen, not with American hard power, American-Israeli hard power, and also not internally.

Two wars down, and that was one of the objectives, or at least the talking points pushed out by the Israelis, by the Americans.

But to think that you can somehow manufacture or engineer this uprising the moment you want it, when you come with your bombs from the sky, suddenly people rise up, it's more a scene out of a movie, and it just didn't materialize last year in the 12-day war, June of last year, and also this year.

I mean, this was promoted as a regime change war, and that just didn't happen, not with American hard power, American-Israeli hard power, and also not internally.
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