Iran Doesn’t Want Larger War with Israel But is Ready For It w/ Prof. Mohammad Marandi
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
What is Iran’s military and political strategy now that it has struck back against Israel’s illegal bombing of its embassy, and with another cycle of escalation looming? Israel’s strikes killed over a dozen people, including two Iranian generals, while Iran’s response produced no casualties. Why is Israel escalating? What does global public opinion look like towards the U.S. Empire on one side and the “Axis of Resistance” on the other? What consequences could the U.S. face in the region if Israel strikes again?
Brian Becker is joined by Prof. Mohammad Marandi, an expert on American studies and postcolonial literature who teaches at the University of Tehran.
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| 0:00.0 | The Israeli military bombed the Iranian consulate in Syria, killing more than a dozen people, |
| 0:09.4 | including high-ranking members of the Iranian military. |
| 0:12.7 | And Iran has struck back with a wave of drones and missiles at Israeli military installations. Israel's war against Gaza has entered a new stage. |
| 0:25.6 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded |
| 0:31.7 | impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. The Welcome to the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:04.5 | Today we're talking once again with Professor Muhammad Mirandi. Dr. Morandi is an expert of American studies and post-colonial literature. |
| 1:14.0 | He teaches at the University of Tehran. |
| 1:17.4 | Muhammad, welcome back to the Socialist Program. |
| 1:20.0 | Thank you for having me, Brian. |
| 1:22.3 | Muhammad, there's a lot to talk about. |
| 1:24.4 | Clearly, we've entered a new stage. |
| 1:27.2 | The brazen attack by the Israeli military |
| 1:30.3 | that bombed an Iranian consulate which is considered by the Vienna Convention as a diplomatic |
| 1:37.5 | compound to be inviolable an attack that took the lives of many people including senior officials |
| 1:43.7 | that was a brazen act to, including senior officials. That was a brazen act, to put it |
| 1:46.9 | mildly, but that was an effort, it seems, maybe your opinion is different, an effort by the Israeli |
| 1:53.6 | government to take the war in Gaza, a war that appears to have been, from a military point of |
| 1:59.8 | view, not succeeding for Israel. It's an |
| 2:02.9 | attempt by Israel to move the struggle, the military combat to another level and perhaps a regional |
| 2:10.8 | level. Anyway, with that said, I want to also mention that the American military officials, |
| 2:16.1 | I saw them the day after the Iranian retaliation, |
| 2:20.5 | said, this is it. Iran has spent whatever it could deliver to Israel, they're done. This is their |
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