Dana El Kurd speaks to Negar Razavi, a political anthropologist at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. Dana and Negar discuss conditions in Iran today, the impact the war has had on the regime and on regional dynamics, and how the “experts” in DC are implicated in this disaster.

Sources:

Mohammad Ali Kadivar on the Iranian regime’s popular mobilization - https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/why-the-iranian-regime-owns-the-streets/

Moustafa Bayoumi on the anti-Palestinian roots of Islamophobia - https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/23/islamophobia-us-palestine-history  

Negar Razavi’s website - https://negarsrazavi.com/ 

Dana El Kurd speaks to Negar Razavi, a political anthropologist at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. Dana and Negar discuss conditions in Iran today, the impact the war has had on the regime and on regional dynamics, and how the &ldquo;experts&rdquo; in DC are implicated in this disaster.
Sources:
Mohammad Ali Kadivar on the Iranian regime&rsquo;s popular mobilization - <a href="https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/why-the-iranian-regime-owns-the-streets/" data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="56097b6b-eaef-4b2e-ba01-e8a4918470ab">https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/why-the-iranian-regime-owns-the-streets/</a>
Moustafa Bayoumi on the anti-Palestinian roots of Islamophobia - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/23/islamophobia-us-palestine-history" data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="9f3a7370-2221-42da-8a3b-6ace18c3e70d">https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/23/islamophobia-us-palestine-history</a> &nbsp;
Negar Razavi&rsquo;s website - <a href="https://negarsrazavi.com/" data-ogsc="" data-outlook-id="b2746032-fb9a-473b-a4b7-3ea0367914d2">https://negarsrazavi.com/</a>&nbsp;

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

It Could Happen Here

The War on Iran and Convergences of Fascism

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