CNN/PBS host Christiane Amanpour and her ex-husband Jamie Rubin are among the top media personalities whose Israel-Iran hot takes look especially silly after President Trump announced a ceasefire on Monday. On their The Ex Files podcast recorded earlier that day, Rubin would claim “extremists” in the U.S. and Israel use Iran’s “death to America” sloganeering to justify a hard line towards Tehran while claiming Israel has no way of getting off the course it has set for itself despite the fact it would do just that later in the day.
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Further on in the discussion, Amanpour sought to switch topics, “But, you know, we need to stop for a minute because we got to go to the next part, Jamie, we’ve got to stop. Because this is important because, you know, could it also become a failed state and what will that mean? Anybody remember Iraq? We'll talk about it in the next part.”
Amanpour then lamented:
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