

Going Underground Hosted by Afshin Rattansi
Going Underground
We ask the questions mainstream media avoid. Current affairs and geopolitics. Produced independently from Dubai, UAE. Hosted by award-winning journalist Afshin Rattansi.
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Jul 14, 2025 • 28min
‘Majority of Humanity HATES Israel’ Afshin Rattansi Challenges J Street Israel Executive Director
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Nadav Tamir, Executive Director of J Street Israel. He discusses Israel’s and the United States’ attack on Iran and whether this will push Iran towards a nuclear weapon, how Netanyahu convinced Trump to attack the Iranian nuclear program, whether Iran can destroy Israel’s cities with its missiles, the polling across NATO countries which show their populations have a negative view of Israel, the opposition to Netanyahu’s government inside Israel, and much more.

Jul 13, 2025 • 28min
‘Iran Could DESTROY the US as a Functioning Country’, Trump Putting ISRAEL FIRST- David Pyne
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to David Pyne, Deputy Director of the US Taskforce on National and Homeland Security and former Consultant at the US Missile Defence Agency. What capabilities does Iran have to devastate the US mainland? Why is President Trump putting Israel and Ukraine first instead of America First? Does Iran already have nuclear weapons? Who is feeding President Trump false intelligence to get him deeper into wars? All this and more is discussed on this episode of Going Underground

Jul 7, 2025 • 27min
'UK PM Sir Keir Starmer’s Endgame is WAR With Russia'- Andrew Bridgen Ex-UK MP
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Andrew Bridgen, former Member of the British Parliament. He discusses the increasing crackdown on freedom of speech by Sir Keir Starmer’s government, the campaign to destroy his reputation by the political class and the media, the false narratives behind the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, Sir Keir Starmer’s endgame being to drag the UK into an all-out war with Russia, and much more.

Jul 5, 2025 • 28min
BRICS SUMMIT: China is US’ Target NO.1, India is BRICS’ Problem! (Prof. Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.)
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., Former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund and Former Vice President of the BRICS New Development Bank, ahead of the upcoming 2025 BRICS Summit in Rio. He discusses the tectonic change of the political West’s relative decline in economic, cultural and even moral terms as a result of their support for the Gaza genocide, Brazil’s internal divisions when it comes to orientation towards the US or BRICS, the pace of BRICS de-dollarisation being more substantial than most people realise, the timid approach of the NDB even amidst the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, China being target number one of the United States and what the Ukraine proxy war has taught it, Narendra Modi’s India becoming increasingly a major problem for BRICS, the importance of Iran to BRICS and why Iran should have had a nuclear weapon a long time ago, and much more.

Jul 2, 2025 • 27min
'It Would be PRUDENT For Iran to Develop Nuclear Weapons!'- CMSGT Dennis Fritz
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CMSGT. Dennis Fritz, Former Advisor to US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Richard Myers. He discusses the fallout of the US’ and Israel’s aggression against Iran and what comes next. Will Israel’s Mossad prepare false flags to drag the US into a major escalation against Iran soon? How deep does the Israel lobby’s control over Congress and departments of the US government go? Will Iran now build nuclear weapons? All this and more is answered in this episode.

Jun 28, 2025 • 28min
Petr Bystron MEP: 'NATO NEEDS an Enemy', Slams ‘STUPID’ Russia-NATO Proxy War in Ukraine
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Petr Bystron MEP, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. He discusses the narrative of Russia being the enemy of Europe and NATO after the NATO Summit this week, the abandonment of Ukraine’s ‘irreversible path’ to NATO, the German government’s labelling of the AfD and left-wing parties as ‘extremist’, Zelensky’s corruption and the billions of missing aid money, the mainstream narrative of Russia being about to invade Europe, whether Germany is still a democracy as crackdowns against free speech and the opposition continue, NATO nations arming Israel for the genocide in Gaza, and much more.

Jun 23, 2025 • 28min
Russian NUCLEAR STRIKE Against Europe Becoming More Likely Over Ukraine (Dr. Dmitri Trenin)
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Dmitri Trenin, Retired Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces and member of Russia’s Foreign and Defence Policy Council. He discusses why Russia has not come to the defence of Iran as Israel and the US attack it, Vladimir Putin’s offer to mediate between Iran and Israel, Russia’s relations with Israel and Israel’s assistance for Ukraine in the proxy war against Russia, and whether the attack on Iran will result in increased nuclear proliferation. In the second half of the interview, he discusses why BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation have not put on a united front, Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s strategic bombers and the changing Russian view on deterrence, Russia’s failure to retaliate causing Russia’s adversaries to step up their escalations, and the increased likelihood of a Russian nuclear strike.

Jun 21, 2025 • 28min
ATTACK ON IRAN: Israel Seeks Regional Hegemony as US & Europe Face Isolation — Daniel Levy
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Daniel Levy, former Senior Advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin, and President of the US/Middle East Project. He discusses the real reasons for Israel’s attack on Iran and the claims that Iran was about to manufacture a nuclear weapon, why the green light was given by Donald Trump for Netanyahu to bomb Iran, the split among Donald Trump’s MAGA camp with opposition to US involvement, whether it’s Israel running the United States or the United States running Israel, America’s misperception of its adversaries including Iran, the isolation that the US and Europe face as the rest of the world condemns the aggression against Iran, the negotiations being used as a decoy, and much more.

Jun 16, 2025 • 27min
Viktor Bout: Zelensky is a DEAD MAN WALKING, Globalists Trying to Pull Trump into WAR Against Russia
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Viktor Bout, Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Ulyanovsk Oblast, called the ‘Merchant of Death’ by NATO propaganda media. He discusses Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s strategic bombers which Russia says was planned by the British Secret Services, the state of the negotiations with Ukraine to end the proxy war, the efforts to pull Donald Trump into the war against Russia, Putin avoiding an ‘emotional’ response to NATO’s provocations, Europe’s economic self-sabotage since 2022, the mass protests in Los Angeles and across the United States, whether Russia will advance on Odessa, Zelensky being a ‘dead man walking’, and much more.

Jun 14, 2025 • 27min
Netanyahu is a FASCIST, Endless Suffering in Gaza is UNBEARABLE- Balad Party’s Sami Abou Shehadeh
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sami Abou Shehadeh, Chairman of the Israeli Balad Party. In an emotional interview, he discusses the 600+ days of suffering Palestinians have endured in the ongoing genocide, Israel’s kidnapping of Greta Thunberg and others on the Madleen Freedom Flotilla Vessel, the US, UK, and EU’s arming of Israel as well as other forms of support such as the UK’s spy flights over Gaza, the UK’s token sanctions against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, the experience of Palestinians living within the State of Israel, why Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascist, the mistake of the Palestinian leadership to trust the United States, and much more.


