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Dig: Israel’s Forever Wars w/ Mouin Rabbani

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Featuring Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s war on Iran, possible direct US intervention, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. 

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0:00.0

This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

0:05.0

and by Haymarket Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

0:12.5

One that you might like is All Our Trials, Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence by Emma L. Thuma. During the 1970s, grassroots

0:24.4

activists within and beyond the walls of women's prisons forged radical politics against gender

0:30.5

violence and incarceration. Scholar activist Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this

0:36.0

anti-carceral feminism at the intersections of

0:39.1

struggles for racial and economic justice, imprisoned and institutionalized people's rights,

0:45.0

and gender and sexual liberation. Thuma reveals a violent culture of opposition to

0:50.6

interpersonal and state violence that both transforms our understanding of 1970s social

0:55.8

movements and illuminates the history of present struggles for transformative justice.

1:02.1

Find all-hour trials at haymarketbooks.org, where all paperback books are 20% off every day.

1:22.7

Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

1:27.7

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

1:35.7

This is my interview with Muyn Rabani on Israel's war on Iran, possible direct U.S. intervention,

1:43.4

and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. As we speak, Trump is considering directly intervening to take part in the Israeli assault.

1:46.2

Iran's struggle for sovereignty against imperialist powers dates back to the 19th century.

1:52.3

Constantly, those imperialist powers have intervened to crush those struggles for sovereignty.

1:59.8

Most dramatically, with the 1953 U.K.-U.S. coup

2:03.9

against democratically elected Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh. It was a government that had to be

2:10.0

overthrown because Iran had dared to commit the crime of nationalizing its own oil.

2:17.0

In 1979, the Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah's

2:21.5

brutal U.S.-backed regime, combining Shia religious piety and third-worldest anti-imperialism,

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