Long Reads: Iran Under Fire w/ Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The war that Benjamin Netanyahu launched against Iran in June killed hundreds of Iranian civilians. After pleading with Donald Trump to intervene on his behalf, Netanyahu even managed to anger his patron in Washington. Still, the possibility of a second Israeli attack on Iran remains.
Long Reads is joined by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi for a conversation about Iran, Israel, and the US. Eskander is a scholar of Middle Eastern politics and history at the University of York and the author of Revolution and its Discontents: Reform and Political Thought in Iran.
Read the recent piece Eskander co-wrote for Jacobin, “The Failson and the Flag,” here: https://jacobin.com/2025/06/reza-pahlavi-iran-israel-intervention
Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by features editor Daniel Finn. Produced by Conor Gillies with music by Knxwledge.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're very welcome to Long Reeds, a Jacobin podcast where we look in depth of political |
| 0:06.8 | topics and thinkers. My name is Daniel Finn and the features editor here at Jacobin, and I'll be |
| 0:13.0 | presenting the show. On June 13th, a wanted fugitive who goes by the name of Benyemin Netanyahu |
| 0:20.3 | addressed the following message to the people of Iran. |
| 0:23.6 | We're in the midst of one of the greatest military operations in history, |
| 0:28.6 | Operation Rising Lion. |
| 0:31.6 | The Islamic regime which has oppressed you for nearly 50 years |
| 0:34.6 | threatens to destroy my country, the state of Israel. |
| 0:39.3 | The objective of Israel's military operation is to remove this threat, both the nuclear threat |
| 0:45.3 | and the ballistic missile threat to Israel. |
| 0:48.3 | And as we achieve our objectives, we're also clearing the path for you to achieve your objective, which is freedom. |
| 0:57.0 | The war that Netanyahu started in June killed hundreds of Iranian civilians. After pleading |
| 1:05.0 | with Donald Trump to intervene on his behalf, Netanyahu even managed to anger his patron in Washington. |
| 1:11.2 | Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, |
| 1:16.3 | the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen, I'm not happy |
| 1:21.0 | with Israel. You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first |
| 1:26.6 | hour and just drop everything you have on them. |
| 1:28.7 | So I'm not happy with them. |
| 1:30.1 | We basically have two countries |
| 1:31.9 | that have been fighting so long and so hard |
| 1:34.6 | that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. |
| 1:37.3 | Do you understand that? |
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