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Iran and the US – Inside the Shadow War

Iran and the US – Inside the Shadow War

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This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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From the crisis in American democracy to the collapse of the Middle East’s petrochemical oligarchies, this is your guide to the dangers that mass media isn’t covering.

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Iran – America’s arch-enemy and the Middle East’s malign
“mini-Imperial power” – fans conflicts from Ukraine to Israel
to Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon, and is said to be only weeks away from
developing a nuclear weapon. But the Islamic Revolution is under
sustained attack from within, under the banner of ‘Woman, Life,
Freedom’. Can Iran maintain its hardline power in the Muslim world?
What do its second- and third-generation revolutionaries want? And
can the West contain them? Gavin Esler talks to Arash Azizi, author
of What Iranians Want, and Barbara Slavin, author of Bitter
Friends, Bosom Enemies, to explore the basis of Iranian power
– and how Donald Trump wrecked what trust there was between
the US and Iran. • “Iran is now more of a military regime than
a theocracy… The Revolutionary Guard and Khameini’s family are
calling the shots.” – Barbara Slavin • “It’s not about
religion any more. It’s about a bunch of goons who are willing to
rule over your life in any way they want.” – Arash Azizi
• “Iran today is internationally isolated and economically
destroyed… The Islamic Republic has taken our country hostage and
made it a foreign policy tool for an ideology.” – Arash Azizi
• “Trump not only destroyed any basis of trust between the US
and Iran, he destroyed confidence in the US as being a state that
lives up to its commitments.” – Barbara Slavin Buy these
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Produced by Robin Leeburn. Original theme music by Paul Hartnoll
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