{"id":5964,"date":"2020-01-09T23:48:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T22:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2021-12-31T14:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T13:20:41","slug":"iran-crisis-prof-kuznick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/iran-crisis-prof-kuznick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iran Crisis &#8211; Everything you need to know with Prof. Kuznick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\"><strong>The Iran Crisis &#8211; Everything you need to know with Prof. Kuznick<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">In this exclusive interview with author, Professor of History, and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington D.C., Peter Kuznick, we examine the recent escalation between the United States and Iran. Furthermore we contextualize the crisis by examining U.S.-Iran relations since the post war period which includes the role of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. Lastly we discuss what solutions could be pursued by the international community as well as grassroots movements to prevent a major war from breaking out between the United States and Iran.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>VIDEO: The Iran Crisis &#8211; Everything you need to know<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Iran Crisis - Everything you need to know with Prof. Kuznick\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GoKZCmSUYs4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>To watch more of our videos with Peter Kuznick or other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>ABOUT PETER KUZNICK<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/index.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/index-150x150.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 78px) 100vw, 78px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/index-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/index.jpg 225w\" alt=\"Peter Kuznick\" width=\"78\" height=\"78\"><\/a><strong>Peter Kuznick<\/strong>&nbsp;is Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington, D.C. He\u2019s the co-author of the book The Untold History of the United States, written together with Hollywood film director and producer Oliver Stone. He was active in the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements and remains active in antiwar and nuclear abolition efforts.<\/p>\n<p>For his full biography visit:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.american.edu\/cas\/faculty\/kuznick.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.american.edu\/cas\/faculty\/kuznick.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Citation for Featured Image:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/service\/license\/\">Pixabay License<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Free for commercial use<\/li>\n<li>No attribution required<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this interview with author and Professor of History Peter Kuznick we examine the recent escalation between the United States and Iran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[20980,20979],"channel":[20951],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-politics","tag-kuznick","tag-peter-kuznick","channel-know-your-stuff"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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