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"War is like a fire. If you do not extinguish it, it will simply expand.” | Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran
As tensions between the United States, Israel, and Iran continue to escalate, Shane Smith travels to Tehran for a rare interview with Esmail Baghaei, spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry.
In this wide-ranging conversation, the Iranian...
WE ARE LIVE IN IRAN
I’m in Tehran right now.
We just started livestreaming from a massive anti-America rally in the middle of the city.
You should watch it: here:
Or just go to vicenews.com.
Americans are told one thing about Iran. Iranians are told anothe...
‘All I care is that the truth gets put forward to the American people’ | UFOlogist Jeremy Corbell on the Department of War's Historic Release of UAP Files
“500 million people in 14 hours looked at those releases on the government website,” Jeremy Corbell tells Shane Smith. “That’s 500 million people…”
Filmmaker and investigative journalist, Jeremy Corbell, returns to Shane Smith Has Question...
'I don't think the average American taxpayer got much out of Afghanistan' | John Sopko on America's Endless Wars
After overseeing more than 700 investigations into waste, fraud, and abuse during the 20-year war in Afghanistan, John Sopko explains how America spent trillions, empowered corruption, radicalized populations, and repeated the same mistakes...
The African AI Robot War
VICE Founder Shane Smith with senior officers of the Niger Armed Forces in Tan-Tan, Morocco. (Jake Burghart / American Awesome)
In January 2026, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told the US military to “accelerate like hell” in the use of...
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