Grim Thought On Iran - Mar26,'26

 

A GRIM THOUGHT ON IRAN – by Jeffrey David Sachs, an American economist and public policy analyst

 

[TRANSCRIBED FROM A VIDEO] - March, 2026

 

We are heading to World War III and we are being led by extraordinarily violent governments in Israel and the United States. I see a calamity building and a lot of blood flowing. It’s a kind of mass murder of civilians by Israel and the United States. This is shocking actually.

 

We should keep it in mind that this is not a targeted bombing, this is carpet bombing in Tehran. And I’ve been speaking on the phone with absolutely desperate people in Tehran in the last 48 hours and it’s carpet bombing. And they are killing indiscriminately.

 

So this is not a disaster that is likely to go away. No one’s claiming in Israel or the U.S. that it’s likely to go away. And the consequences for the world will be utterly awful.

 

And, we have a lot of Americans. We have a very particular society. We have a lot of Americans who are saying, “Move on, this is Armageddon coming. This is the promised end of the world.”

 

We are hearing lots of reports about this being preached in the military. We’re seeing a lot of people who believe that the worse it gets, the closer we are to the second coming of Jesus Christ. And that’s a motivating factor in the United States I have to tell you. It’s a significant part of Mr Trump’s base and so bad news is not necessarily deterrence. It may just mean escalation to Armageddon. 

 

It’s a grim situation we are in. We have not seen anything like it actually, since World War II. This is even beyond the Iraq War. They then had, I won’t say the dignity, but they then had the impulse to hide the motivations. Here there is no impulse to hide the motivations. It’s just a complete “Kill anybody and kill everybody” and overturn, this society of 100 million people and the ancient society of 5,000 years. So it’s dreadful.