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<p>Unwittingly, CNN provided a moment of narrative-shattering clarity as the network’s reliable stable of liberal pundits was reminded that history didn’t actually begin the day Donald Trump took office.</p>
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<p data-path-to-node="1">During a heated panel discussion, host Abby Phillip and commentator Ashley Allison attempted to pin the &#8220;warmonger&#8221; label on President Trump, suggesting his aggressive posture toward the Iranian regime—and his apparent support for the Iranians&#8217; desire for freedom—amounted to starting a new conflict.</p>
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<p data-path-to-node="2">The panel, which included<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i data-path-to-node="2" data-index-in-node="26">Foreign Policy</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>editor Ravi Agrawal, journalist Elise Labott, and conservative radio host Jason Rantz, was descending into the usual media hand-wringing over &#8220;regime change&#8221; and &#8220;parsing language.&#8221; Phillip and Allison were busy clutching their pearls over Trump’s suggestion that the Iranian people should rise up, with Allison demanding to know if the U.S. was &#8220;at war.&#8221;</p>
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<p data-path-to-node="3">Then came<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Kian Tajbakhsh.</p>
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<p data-path-to-node="4">Tajbakhsh isn’t some ivory-tower academic theorizing from a D.C. coffee shop; he is an Iranian-American scholar who was actually imprisoned by the brutal mullahs in Tehran. When the CNN hosts tried to frame Trump as the aggressor, Tajbakhsh stepped in to provide a much-needed reality check that left the set momentarily stunned.</p>
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<p data-path-to-node="5,0">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s right to say that President Trump has started a war with Iran,&#8221; Tajbakhsh stated calmly. &#8220;I think President Trump wants to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>finish a war that Iran started in 1979.&#8221;</p>
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<p data-path-to-node="6">He didn&#8217;t stop there. He recounted a chilling anecdote from 2004 while he was working at a high level within Iran. A senior official in the Foreign Ministry looked him in the eye and told him point-blank: &#8220;We believe we are at war with the United States.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Former Iranian political prisoner Kian Tajbakhsh shuts down an entire CNN panel with a blunt reality check.</p>
<p>Abby Phillip and Ashley Allison were spiraling over whether the U.S. is actually at war with Iran.</p>
<p>That’s when Tajbakhsh dropped an absolute truth bomb: “I think… <a href="https://t.co/XddsKT7FWT">pic.twitter.com/XddsKT7FWT</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Overton (@overton_news) <a href="https://twitter.com/overton_news/status/2029771585033277574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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<p data-path-to-node="7">For the Left, the fiction that the Islamic Republic is a rational actor—one that was &#8220;peaceful&#8221; until Trump arrived—is a necessary component of their worldview. Tajbakhsh’s testimony destroyed that facade. He reminded the audience that the regime has been waging a &#8220;cold war&#8221; against America for nearly 50 years, fueled by the same &#8220;death to America&#8221; ideology that has defined them since the embassy hostage crisis.</p>
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<p data-path-to-node="8">While the media elites worry about the &#8220;brutality&#8221; of a social media post, Tajbakhsh pointed out the actual brutality: an unarmed, disorganized Iranian citizenry facing a regime so lopsided in its power that they cannot overthrow it alone.</p>
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<p data-path-to-node="9">Trump isn&#8217;t starting a fire; he’s finally acknowledging the one that’s been burning since 1979—and he’s looking for the extinguisher.</p>
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