“The US has never been in a head-on war with a country of Iran’s population, size, and industrial power. Iran has never faced off against adversaries as powerful and determined to do maximum damage as the US and Israel." open.substack.com/pub/borzou/p...
28.02.2026 15:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A war of the Epstein class, by the Epstein class, for the Epstein class
28.02.2026 09:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Maybe Iran should accept the US terms. It was Iran’s arsenal of missiles that ultimately served as a deterrent during the 12-day war. It was the barrage of rockets and drones that hit Tel Aviv prompting Israel to ask the US to put an end to the conflict. The nucelar program ultimately did nothing.
26.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ukraine war turned 4 years old this week. It has receded into the background, even as the carnage continues. Anton Shekhovtsov is a Ukrainian scholar at Central European University. He joins me for an interview about the state of the war & its worldwide implications open.substack.com/pub/borzou/p...
25.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The US has a vast armada of ships and planes amassed around Iran. But to what end? Will a US and Israeli war against Iran lead to democracy? Destroy its nuclear program? Make Americans safer? And what will be the ultimate consequences for the region and for Iran? substack.com/@borzoudarag...
24.02.2026 14:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
US Ambassador Mike Huckabee says he’s cool with a Greater Israel stretching from Iraq to Egypt. The rest of the Middle East? Not so much. open.substack.com/pub/borzou/p...
23.02.2026 22:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“None of this makes military strategic sense.”
@borzou.bsky.social criticizes the Trump administration’s approach to #Iran on #F24Debate ➡️ f24.my/BlCM
Why bomb Iran? Why do it now?
Monday #F24Debate sizes up reasoning for eventual U.S. strikes
Cuba never buckled. Nor did Vietnam. Venezuela required military intervention. Iran also won’t “capitulate.” Indeed no country really gives in to gunboat diplomacy.
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“It’s like the Jamaican bobsled team movie, except instead of a plucky band of outsiders doing their best, it’s a scheming gang of well-funded insiders lying, cheating, and pressuring others into betrayal.”
22.02.2026 19:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
War is the glue that holds the Islamic Republic together. It was the trauma and agony of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war that wedded the clerical regime to a significant portion of the Iranian people. The deprivations of that conflict shaped an entire generation. borzou.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...
21.02.2026 23:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
In the UK, the government is arresting Epstein’s clique
In the US, the government is Epstein’s clique
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
This is how the Biden administration should have dealt with Trump after Jan. 6
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As war between Iran and the US approaches, both sides are preparing militarily. substack.com/@borzoudarag...
19.02.2026 08:32 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A war won’t cover up the #EpsteinFiles
@borzou.bsky.social warns against any attempt to deflect attention from Trump’s #Epstein ties on #F24Spotlight
“Even the hint that the family overseeing America’s most important newspaper could be implicated in a scandal involving sex crimes and intelligence services raises concerns.”
Read here open.substack.com/pub/borzou/p...
BREAKING NEWS: The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a lifelong civil rights advocate until his death Tuesday at the age of 84.
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Just a few years ago Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were not just partners but allies. That has ended. Gulf specialist Cianza Bianco discusses what happened. open.substack.com/pub/borzou/p...
16.02.2026 22:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read Borzou’s piece “Your Podcast Leaches Off My News Outlet”: borzou.substack.com/p/your-podca...
10.02.2026 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The US appears ready to exploit Iranians’ demands for change to gain security advantages for itself and Israel
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Washington is effectively using popular Diaspora opposition to the regime and the Iranian people’s democratic aspirations as a fig leaf for its cynical hard-power goals x.com/borzou/statu...
15.02.2026 19:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Epstein and associates were working behind the scenes to score financial deals during Libya’s 2011 uprising. There are references to intelligence services and operations, a secret trip possibly involving State Department, even a possible Prince Andrew connection. open.substack.com/pub/borzou/p...
10.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
E235 - The Decline of Newsrooms w/ @borzou.bsky.social
Journalist Borzou Dargahi is on the show to talk about the end of the international desk, tech, and all that is currently hollowing out newsrooms.
Link in the replies.
WATCH — @patryanforcongress : “DHS and ICE are attempting to build a national network of warehouses for mass detention… 80,000 at a time… tens of billions of dollars… Trump’s multi-billionaire donors will benefit…”
07.02.2026 04:19 — 👍 1331 🔁 760 💬 103 📌 61“It would not be too cynical to think that the US doesn’t really care about the Iranian people. It is just using the moment of the regime’s weakness to extract the concessions for its own and Israel’s security that it has long sought.”
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Wow — Carlos caught DHS/Noem using a guy who never lived in 🇺🇸 to show how many “worst of the worst” they’ve arrested.
He was arrested in Colombia in 2019.
How many others have they done this with? 🤥
The lies are endless. Nobody should believe a word they say.
The US and Iran conclude the first day of talks to avoid a war neither of them really wants, but both of them are heading toward open.substack.com/pub/borzou/p...
06.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Watch me discuss the Iran-US talks in Oman today on India’s News X World youtu.be/NbHvLv3swo0?...
06.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Hay un deseo ardiente de cambio, una llama de rebelión contra el régimen”, dice @borzou.bsky.social. “El poder aplasta esa llama y cree que ha sofocado el fuego, pero debajo quedan las brasas encendidas, esperando el momento de volver a prender”. www.elespanol.com/mundo/orient...
03.02.2026 12:25 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Watch me discuss Iran, the US, Europe, and the launch of my new Substack newsletter in this lengthy interview with India’s NewsX
youtu.be/54p4O3N4X_M?...
