This is Jackhamen Radio and I'm Susie Wiseman.

Today we begin with the on-again-off-again war brinkmanship with Iran.

MIT historian Puyi Ali Mygum joins us to look at the intensifying crisis with Iran that saw us about 10 minutes away from military

strikes last week before Trump pulled back.

We get Puyas analysis of the crisis, the implications and goals of the increasing bluster, ever more draconian

sanctions, and the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear accord with Iran.

We also get his take on what the increased tensions mean for domestic descent in Iran.

And then UCI professor of Chinese history, Jeff Washerstrom, just back from Hong Kong,

has written an article in the Atlantic about the weeks long

gigantic protest movement in Hong Kong that was met with extreme police

violence. That only brought more people to the streets protesting a bill that would allow the extradition of suspects

to mainland China, a further threat to Hong Kong's partial autonomy.

For the moment the bill has been shelved thanks to the massive protests in the streets but not the efforts to

erode the city's freedoms. We get Jeff Wasstram's analysis in the second half of

this installment of Jacobin Radio.

Welcome to Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman Radio.

I'm Susie Wiseman and we're going to begin today talking about the intensification

of the crisis in Iran with the United States blustering and taking us to the brink of war,

then pulling back.

But yet this intensification has increased and the danger has not passed.

And so I think we need to stand back and have a look at what is behind this crisis and who are the forces that are pushing for it.

And I've asked Puya Ollie Magum to join us today.

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