Another Take: What is Iran’s right to resist regime change?
The Take
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🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
As the year wraps up, we're looking back at 10 of the episodes that defined our year at The Take. This originally aired on June 24, 2025. None of the dates, titles, or other references have been changed.
Israel claims Iran is closer than ever to building a nuclear weapon. But as it targets Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his nation’s attacks will also “liberate” Iranians. In a civilization shaped by millennia of empire and resistance, those words land differently. What does liberation mean to Iranians as the US and Israel call for regime change?
In this episode:
- Hamid Dabashi (@dabashihamid), Professor of Iranian Studies, Columbia University
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Chloe K. Li, Sonia Bhagat, and Haleema Shah, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Ashish Malhotra, Tamara Khandaker, Mariana Navarrete, and our host, Manuel Rápalo. It was edited by Kylene Kiang and Noor Wazwaz.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, I'm Halima Shah, and this is another take, where we bring you episodes from the archives. |
| 0:18.5 | As we look back on our year in review, we're revisiting conversations that define 2025 at the take. |
| 0:25.6 | One of those was about the 12-day war launched by Israeli airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. |
| 0:32.6 | As the countries exchanged fire and the death toll mounted, |
| 0:36.6 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made no secret of a long-held desire, forcing out Iran's current government. |
| 0:45.3 | This episode originally aired on June 24, 2025. All dates and references are from that time. |
| 0:55.0 | Today, the long push for regime change in Iran. |
| 1:13.6 | Israel has started talking about regime change in Iran, with Benjamin Netanyahu saying |
| 1:19.6 | that assassinating supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini would bring an end to the war |
| 1:24.6 | with Tehran. |
| 1:25.6 | How Israel and the US use the fear of a nuclear Iran |
| 1:29.3 | to further their interests in the region. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm Manuel Rapalow, and this is the take. |
| 1:41.3 | After more than a week of exchanged attacks between Israel and Iran, the United States |
| 1:48.4 | joined the escalating conflict by attacking three nuclear sites in Iran. |
| 1:53.5 | The aftermath of strikes that could reshape the region. |
| 1:59.2 | The U.S. military says it bombed three of Iran's key nuclear sites, |
| 2:03.6 | Fordot, Natanz, and Esfahan. |
| 2:06.6 | And on Monday, Iran retaliated with its own missiles towards a military base in Qatar, |
| 2:12.6 | housing U.S. troops. |
| 2:14.6 | An operation called Annunciation of Victory has begun against U.S. air bases in Qatar and indeed |
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