Former Ambassador Charles Freeman: Iran will win this.
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6 March 2026, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
https://www.youtube.com/live/FM1WOmbdzmA?t=1167s
“Amb. Chas Freeman: The War With Iran Is Breaking Everything the U.S. Planned”
Dialogue Works interviews Charles Freeman, 6 March 2026
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FREEMAN: I think Iran’s strategy is very clear.
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They will escalate the pressure on these Arab countries to the point where they
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have to make a decision. Are you going to continue to align yourself with the United States or not? And here there’s
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been a very important development that I think not enough attention has been paid to. Hh, the Emir, Emirates, which bought a
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$2 billion dollar American air defense system, basically ran out of interception capability, and it asked the United
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States to replenish its defenses and the American response reportedly was we don’t have what we need to do that and
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if we have anything it’s going to Israel not you. So, this again says look, uh, if
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you made a bet on American defense of you in a regional war with Iran, you made the wrong bet because the United
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States will not defend you. In fact, the United States is the problem [because it makes you a magnet to become attacked], not the answer to the problem.
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INTERVIEWER: Do you do you think that at some moment you will see China and Russia been you
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know doing something because the war is somehow influencing each and everybody.
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It’s not just about China and Russia. We see Japan and South Korea being influenced by the war.
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Because of the, because of, you know, Donald Trump is bringing all those THAAD systems they had in South Korea
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to to defend Israel and it’s all these countries are influenced by the war. FREEMAN: Quite a list of countries. Let me just
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say that the biggest immediate victim of this war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is India, which has almost no
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strategic petroleum reserve. I think they have nine days worth of petroleum in their strategic reserve. So they’re on
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the brink of disaster. The electricity will go out. Um, there will be no gasoline for cars and so forth. Um, in
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India, that is why Donald Trump has exempted India from the sanctions on buying Russian oil uh certain categories of Russian oil. Um, so I’ll start there.
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China won’t be really affected because it has an enormous strategic petroleum reserve and um this will of course
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accelerate the already very rapid Chinese turn to renewable energy and away from oil. So, it will reduce the oil
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market in China more rapidly than otherwise would have been the case.
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Japan and South Korea each have substantial strategic petroleum reserves but they will run out. Taiwan has almost no
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strategic petroleum reserve and it’s going to be in trouble in fairly short order. Um, so those are some immediate
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effects [other than the EU]. Um, the Russians for their part are delighted by this war. Why? Because uh it’s doing enormous damage to the
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United States militarily. Whatever its outcome, the United States will have depleted its stocks of defensive weapons
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and attack offensive weapons both, and it will be greatly weakened militarily.
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Whoever wins the war, if if anyone wins it and I suspect no one is going to win it, um, the uh price of gas has just gone
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through the ceiling. That’s very good for Russia. Russian oil is now very much in demand. The price of oil, as I said,
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is probably going to $150 a barrel, uh, it’s already in the mid 90s, uh, and, uh, and climbing.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
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