The War on Iran w/ Nina Farnia & Navid Farnia
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we have a critically important discussion that we hope you will find useful and will share with others that you think may benefit. Here we bring on Nina Farnia and Navid Farnia to discuss the ongoing war on Iran. The situation continues to develop rapidly, but the analysis provided here is absolutely crucial to continuing to deepen our understanding of what is happening as well as WHY is is happening the way it is. Be sure to check out the piece that they did for Pambazuka which we reference several times throughout the conversation - Iran v. US Imperialism: An Interview with Navid Farnia & Nina Farnia.
We also recommend you check out the previous episode that Nina did with us Lawfare and Imperialism.
Nina Farnia is a legal historian, focusing on the role of modern imperialism in U.S. law and politics. Her forthcoming book Imperialism and Resistance will be coming out next year from Stanford University Press, so stay tuned for that! You can find more of her work on her Albany Law webpage, and you can follow her on twitter @NinaFarnia.
Navid Farnia is a scholar of African American Studies. His research broadly explores the relationship between racial oppression in the United States and U.S. imperialism with a focus on revolutionary movements and counterrevolutionary responses. Navid's book manuscript, National Liberation in an Imperialist World: Race, Counterrevolution, and the United States, traces the U.S. national security state's evolution by examining how U.S. officials responded to national liberation movements at home and abroad from the 1950s to 1980.
Both are members of the Anti-Imperalist Scholars Collective.
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| 0:00.0 | You don't remember Den Van Boo? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:15.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:29.1 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan |
| 0:43.6 | Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:48.5 | Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing great, Henry. It's wonderful to be with you. |
| 0:53.3 | It's nice to see you as always. We have two fantastic guests today, but before I introduce the guests, I would like to remind the listeners that you can help support the show and allow us to continue making episodes like this by going to Patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history. That's G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. So our topic today is going to be |
| 1:14.8 | focused on Iran. And of course, Iran is very much at the front of the news cycle these days. |
| 1:20.7 | And recently, I had read an interview by two of both of these guests that was in Pam Bazooka, which was a really |
| 1:29.4 | great interview. We're joined by Navid Farnia, who is a scholar of African American studies, |
| 1:36.1 | and returning guest Nina Farney, a law professor and legal historian. She was on an episode. |
| 1:41.1 | I don't remember. It couldn't have been that long ago, Nina, like maybe six |
| 1:45.2 | months ago. But it's nice to have both of you on the show. Naveed, if you would like to say anything |
| 1:51.1 | else about yourself to introduce yourself to our guests, to our listeners, rather, because it's |
| 1:56.0 | your first time on the show. Please feel free. Sure. Yes. Thank you, Henry and Adnan, for so much for having us on |
| 2:03.0 | the show today. Yeah, as you said, my name is Navid Farnia. I'm a professor of African-American |
| 2:08.7 | studies at Wayne State University in Detroit in the United States. And my research is broadly on the |
| 2:15.4 | relationship between racial oppression in the United States and U.S. imperialism, particularly during the era of national liberation. |
| 2:22.5 | So I really focus on revolution and counter-revolution. |
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