🇺🇸🇮🇷 Pepe Escobar: Washington is trying to use the Venezuela playbook on Iran, and he thinks it badly misunderstands who it is dealing with.

Name: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Pepe Escobar: Washington is trying to use the Venezuela playbook on Iran, and he thinks it badly misunderstands who it is dealing with.
Uploaded: 2026-08-20T17:32:46.000Z
Channel: Mario Nawfal
Description: Escobar says the Trump administration recently revived a back channel to the IRGC through Iraqi Kurdistan’s leader Nechirvan Barzani. The channel was originally set up for diplomacy. According to Escobar, it was later used to offer billions of dollars to senior IRGC figures in exchange for helping weaken Iran’s leadership from within.

Mario Nawfal

Aug 20, 2026

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