Professor Muhammad Marandi of Tehran University’s interview with Times Radio analysed by Scale of Power.
BSNews’s Alison Banville writes:
This video is something we hardly ever see on western corporate media news channels – the official narrative being genuinely challenged. Now, you may say well, if Times Radio had him on then all is well isn’t it? That’s balance. Unfortunately not. Because although voices like Marandi’s are usually kept from western audiences, having him on this show was designed to expose him as an extremist; a supporter of a murderous ‘regime’- the favoured word dutifully repeated by corpo-hacks for its short cut propaganda value.
A ‘regime’ is a bad guy government. A ‘regime’ is not to be trusted. A ‘regime’ is automatically something we need to get rid of for the good of the people of that country. This insidious word is never questioned by the dumb as fuck, selected for obedience ‘journalists’ fronting mainstream media channels so completely have they been immersed in a system that trains and selects them for saying the ‘right’ thing. But here, Marandi reverses that narrative, not only by calling the UK a ‘regime’, which it more realistically is considering democracy here is a sham, but by explaining in the same breath why his interviewer is using it.
Marandi has a huge task on his hands here which he takes on – and succeeds with – admirably. Fielding the reporter’s blatantly biased questions then exposing them as such is an uphill struggle when she constantly interrupts him as he’s trying to answer. But this simply reveals her fear of the audience hearing the truth, because unlike her unfounded claims she states as fact, what Marandi says is supported by evidence. And the Times Radio reporter’s attempts to cling onto the high moral ground looks increasingly laughable. If she really was the professional journalist she poses as she would allow him to answer. Watch as two worlds collide:
Scale of Power:
In this video, we break down Professor Muhammad Morandi’s explosive live TV interview where he refused to play by the usual Western media rules and put the reporter on the defensive. We play the full clip and then unpack how Morandi’s direct challenges, rapid pivots to verifiable events, and uncompromising framing flipped the interview from standard Q&A to a confrontation that left the reporter visibly unsettled. We analyze the key moments: Morandi’s accusation that Western coverage enables the bombing of Iran, his citation of recent resignations to anchor controversial claims, and his stark claim that the Strait of Hormuz gives Iran leverage—language that signals a country prepared to hold the US “by the throat.” The segment also examines how this exchange exposes a larger shift in media dynamics, where prepared, neutral framing no longer contains voices that arrive determined to reshape the narrative. We close by highlighting the bigger picture: whether you agree with Morandi or not, the clip demonstrates how traditional interview norms are breaking down in an era of viral clips, resignations, leaked documents, and instant global scrutiny.
