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Transcript: Trump’s War May Have Further Empowered Iran

Apr 9, 2026Left

This is a lightly edited transcript of the April 8 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Perry Bacon: So now we have this two-week ceasefire. Talk about your immediate reactions to it.Ishaan Tharoor: Look, we began this week with this sense of looming escalation crisis. Trump…

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