Can Iran Survive? An urgent discussion on the US-Israel War
Verso was joined by Afshin Matin-Asgari, Golnar Nikpour, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, and Ervand Abrahamian for an urgent discussion on the US-Israel war in Iran.
On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime change, the Iranian regime has shown that it will not go down easily. In the face of US imperial aggression, what is the future for Iran?
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Born in Iran, Afshin Matin-Asgari is Professor of Middle East History at California State University, Los Angeles. In addition to Axis of Empire, Matin-Asgari has published two scholarly monographs and more than two dozen articles and book chapters on modern Iranian political and intellectual history.
Golnar Nikpour is Associate Professor of modern Iranian political and intellectual history, with a particular interest in the history of law, incarceration, revolution, and rights. She is the author of The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran.
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is an assistant professor of the international relations of the Middle East at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Revolution and Its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran.
Professor Ervand Abrahamian is Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics at the Baruch College, CUNY. He is a historian of the Middle East and author of the forthcoming Iran 1979: An Inevitable Revolution (Verso, 2027).
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