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Jiang argues that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard wants war with the United States because of U.S. support for the Shah, protection of Israel and Saudi Arabia, and Trump's killing of Qasem Soleimani.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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Jiang says the American theory that Iranians will rise up against Tehran will fail because Iranians remember U.S. support for the Shah, the destruction of Iraq, their civilizational independence, and religious duty against America.
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Jiang says the Shah's departure to America revived Iranian fear that the United States might repeat 1953 by helping him return to power through invasion or coup.
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Jiang says the 1979 embassy seizure had broad public and Khomeini support because many Iranians wanted the Shah returned for trial and feared U.S. restoration of his rule.
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Jiang argues Iran is a prime US target because of its oil, its control over the Strait of Hormuz, its rivalry with Saudi Arabia, and the loss of American influence after the 1979 overthrow of the Shah.
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"...course, there's the fact that in 1979, the Iranians overthrew the Shah and that diminished American influence in Iran. So I think that the..."
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"...very angry about U.S. interference in Iran, right? So during the Shah regime, which was a brutal police state from 1953 to 1979, the..."
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"So they want war with the United States. So you see the map, right? You see the logic of this, where there are powerful..."
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"...Okay. So Iranians hate Americans. Okay? Remember that Iranians remember the Shah. From 1953 until 1979, the Shah, the American supported Shah was running..."
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"What happened in Iraq? America destroyed Iraq. Right? From 2003 until 2011, America was there destroying the country. America said that it would bring..."
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"They believe that America is Satan. And they have a duty, a religious obligation to fight Satan. Okay? So for many reasons, there's just..."
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"He... The Shah realized that it was very hard for him to stay in power despite the brutality of the army and the police...."
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"...were the three Americans as hostages. Okay? And they demanded the Shah be returned to Iran to stand trial. Now, this is obviously an..."
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"...regime change iran uh you install a vladimir zelensky in tehran shah reza pahlavi who will do you know whatever whatever his western sponsors..."
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"...way cheaper so duh obviously you know but if you get shah reza pahlavi it doesn't matter he's going to give the contracts to..."
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"...to abandon their proxies and they will have to install the Shah as their new leader, American puppet. So that those are the four..."
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"...of people in the diaspora who's going to be disillusioned. Their Shah is never going to go back. They're never going to have a..."
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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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The interview begins as a fight over whether the Iran war has helped anyone, then turns into a harder question: what happens when a regional war reveals that waterways, energy corridors, diaspora hopes, and...
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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The interview opens as a first-week war briefing and then keeps widening.
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The title promises Iran war prediction, but the interview's real shape is stranger.
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Jiang starts from the harshest frame available: Iran is not one more crisis but the hinge on which the next half-century turns.
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