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Ray McGovern was a CIA officer for 27 years, he chaired the National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the CIA's Presidential Daily Briefs. McGovern discusses why Israel may use nuclear weapons, as it lost the war against Iran and has no acceptable off-ramp.
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Ray McGovern discusses the lasting consequences of the war on Iran. McGovern was a CIA intelligence analyst for 27 years, chaired the National Intelligence Estimates and participated in preparing the President's Daily Brief. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, returning it in 2006 to protest the CIA's involvement in torture.
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Ray McGovern was a CIA officer for 27 years, he chaired the National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the CIA's Presidential Daily Briefs. McGovern discusses how the US empire is collapsing and pulling down the entire US-led security architecture.
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Ray McGovern discusses Europe abandonment of reason, diplomacy and peace as the continent struggles with remaining relevant in a multipolar world. How did Germany replace the US as Russia's most despised adversary?
McGovern was a CIA intelligence analyst for 27 years, chaired the National Intelligence Estimates and participated in preparing the President's Daily Brief. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, returning it in 2006 to protest the CIA's involvement in torture.
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Former C.I.A. analyst Ray McGovern and ex-U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter join The World This Week to discuss the latest developments in the Iran war as Donald Trump cancels his realtors’ return to Islamabad.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was already in Islamabad with a written proposal to end the war to present to the United States. The Iranian foreign ministry said the proposal would have been transmitted through Pakistani mediators and not directly to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the New York real estate agents that Donald Trump initially was sending to the Pakistani capital on Saturday.
Vice President J.D. Vance, who led the U.S. side in the failed talks earlier this month, was being held behind in Washington “on standby … if we feel it’s a necessary use of his time,” said Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary.
But on Saturday, Trump abruptly canceled Witkoff and Kushner’s departure.
“I’ve told my people a little while ago, they were getting ready to leave, and I said, ‘Nope, you’re not making an 18-hour flight to go there. We have all the cards,’” Trump said in a statement. “They can call us anytime they want, but you’re not going to be making any more 18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing.”
Having said he would not meet directly with Trump’s envoy, Araghchi had left Pakistan before the cancellation of the U.S. delegations’ flight, according to Western and Iranian outlets. Press TV reported:
“The Iranian delegation left Islamabad before US envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, were expected to travel to the Pakistani capital to meet with mediators.
US President Donald Trump, however, later told Fox News that he had canceled the visit.
Tehran had previously said that there was no plan for the Iranian delegation to meet with the American representatives in Islamabad.”
Huge differences remain in the standoff between the two sides in a war that has been on hold since Trump blinked and extended a ceasefire “indefinitely” last Tuesday. Iran wants sanctions lifted and assets unfrozen; an end to the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports; a vow of U.S. non-aggression and the removal of U.S. troops from the Middle East.
The U.S. wants the Strait of Hormuz opened, an end to nuclear enrichment by Iran and a hidden stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium. It seems the U.S. is no longer demanding that Iran give up its ballistic missile defense.
There could be room for a deal on the enrichment issue. At the first round of talks, Iran proposed a five-year, monitored suspension of all nuclear enrichment, even though Iran is permitted to enrich under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). The U.S. countered with a proposal for a 20-year suspension.
Before Trump had agreed to extend the ceasefire indefinitely, he threatened to destroy Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure. Iran has vowed to retaliate in kind against Gulf Arab states and Israel. A resumption of hostilities promises to bring about extensive regional destruction that would plunge the world into a long-term economic crisis of historic proportions.
Despite saying the U.S. “holds all the cards,” the U.S. and Israel had failed to achieve all of its war aims: overthrowing the Iranian government, destroying its ballistic missiles, seizing a stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium and its capacity to enrich more.
1917 Again in Russia?
McGovern and Ritter will also discuss the battlefield in Ukraine and the domestic situation in Russia after the leader of the main opposition party, Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, told the State Duma: “If you don’t quickly take measures – financial, economic and other measures -then by autumn what await us is what happened in 1917.”
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Iran will retaliate in a deadly way to Trump's reported decision go to war says Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern, who join this stream to break down the latest in the unrest that's been spreading across the Islamic Republic, as well as Russia's devastating Oreshnik missile response to Trump's failures in Ukraine plus much more.
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Iran will retaliate in a deadly way to Trump's reported decision go to war says Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern, who join this stream to break down the latest in the unrest that's been spreading across the Islamic Republic, as well as Russia's devastating Oreshnik missile response to Trump's failures in Ukraine plus much more.
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Shaky truces are in place in Lebanon and Iran as the belligerents plot their next moves. Can an uncertain war become a certain peace? Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter this week on The World This Week.
Just two days after Iran responded to a ceasefire in Lebanon by “completely” opening the Strait of Hormuz – prompting Donald Trump to declare the war all but over and himself luicrously as the victor – Iran's military said today they are reimposing control over the strait until the U.S. ends its blockade of Iranian ports, as ineffective as it may be.
What happens now in this uncertain war? (apologies to Tacitus) Benjamin Netanyahu is unhappy with both ceasefires and the Israeli public is behind him. They want more war.
Trump is acting all tough with the Netanyahu. On social media. He wrote: “Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are PROHIBITED from doing so by the U.S.A. Enough is enough!!! Thank you! President DJT.”
But what is his word worth when he faces Netanyahu behind closed doors?
It seems unlikely more war will produce a better result for Trump and Netanyahu.
An objective assessment shows that none of Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war aims were met in 40 days of war: the Iranian government was not overthrown, its ballistic missiles are still intact, Tehran maintains relationships with its regional allies, it continues to enrich uranium and still maintains its 6o percent stockpile.
This unnecessary, unprovoked war of aggression may come down to whether the U.S. and Israel can find a way to gracefully accept defeat. Otherwise we may just see a total war of revenge for losing.
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Russia's devastating retaliation has triggered Europe in a major way, and NATO's threats won't save it says Scott Ritter, the prolific former UN Weapons inspector and marine corps intelligence officer. Ray McGovern also joined for a critical update on the bleak future of the West amid Ukraine's collapse.
According to the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community report, Al-Qaeda and its associated forces remain a threat, especially in Iraq. But the report says that the terrorist organization isn't the only threat the US faces from abroad. RT's Liz Wahl talks to former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the details of the report from the heads of US intelligence agencies to see if the report is fearmongering or realistic. -RT.com
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The phony scandal of Russiagate was already dead. Now it is decomposed. It was killed off by the Mueller Report finding no conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign; by the CrowdStrike president's testimony that there was no evidence of a hack of DNC servers; and by the revelation that the basis of the story was made-up opposition research paid for by the Clinton campaign that was deceptively treated as serious intelligence by senior Obama administration officials and the Democratic-aligned media.
New revelations this month from the director of national intelligence shows that President Barack Obama and his senior intelligence officials intentionally suppressed dissenting intelligence assessments that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election. GUESTS: Ray McGovern, former senior C.I.A. analyst and Bill Binney, former NSA technical director.
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Some NATO and Russian advisers think nuclear weapons are a viable option. Would a desperate Israel really nuke Iran? We speak with nuclear weapons expert Peter Kuznick, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and economist Professor Richard Wolff.
A troubled relationship or a transforming international system? As the West and Russia turn away from each other, can we expect more tensions or merely indifference? And is this a divorce or just a long-term separation?
CrossTalking with Nicolai Petro, Gilbert Doctorow and Ray McGovern.
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Ray McGovern was a CIA officer for 27 years, he chaired the National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the CIA's Presidential Daily Briefs.
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SCOTT RITTER and RAY MCGOVERN BREAK IT DOWN: Trump keeps bombing boats in the Caribbean and despite denying war preparations, the US is closer to war now more than ever and Putin knows it. Has Russia sent direct support via what was formerly known as Wagner?
