Dangerous binaries of the US attack on Iran

The United States and Israel launched an unprovoked missile attack on Iran last week, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as well as several Islamic Republic officials and sparking new attacks in the Middle East. The Strait of Hormuz, an important route for oil transportation, was closed. The claim that Washington attacked Iran to provoke “regime change” is dubious at best.

But the Iranian people have been largely left out of the geopolitical discourse. Just last month, massive revolutionary protests saw the regime murder nearly 40,000 people. So why were they shouted “US propaganda agents” when the Iranian diaspora shared their mixed feelings about this week’s strikes?

Author and physician Hessom Razavi joins the podcast to address the complex emotions of many Iranians, his own family’s story of persecution in Iran, and to explain why calls for adherence to “rules-based order” are pointless right now.

Watch the full interview below or Read the transcript here.

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