Understanding the Iran War with MS NOW’s Ayman Mohyeldin: Part 2

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this two-part series, Imara sits down with Ayman Mohyeldin of MS Now to break down the history, politics, and power dynamics between Iran, the United States, and Israel.

In this second episode, we take a deep dive into Iran’s complex relationships with its Gulf neighbors and examine how political narratives and dehumanization contribute to misunderstandings within U.S. foreign policy and the White House’s approach to Iran.

This week’s Trans Joy features Matice Moore, an organizer and project director at The Brown Boi Project! Check them out at https://www.brownboiproject.org/staff.html

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0:00.0	Hey, fam, it's me, Amara.
0:11.2	Welcome to the TransLash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.
0:17.1	Last week, we spoke to MS Niles, Amen Mohadine, about contextualizing the decades-long tension
0:23.2	and hostility between the United States and Iran to understand how decades of proxy wars,
0:29.3	sanctions, and coups help lead us to the current conflict. This week, we're diving into Iran's
0:35.7	relationship with its neighbors in the region, including
0:38.4	Israel and the Gulf states, to explore how these tensions also got us to the present moment.
0:45.8	Just a quick program note, because things are moving really quickly.
0:49.9	At the time of this recording, there's a fragile ceasefire that's holding, barely, and talks are underway at perhaps peace.
0:59.9	But before diving back in with Amen, let's start out as always with some trans joy. Matisse Moore is a black queer non-binary artist and facilitator from Arizona.
1:27.0	They are the project director of the Brown Boy Project,
1:30.4	which seeks to change the way the communities of color talk about gender.
1:35.6	Founded in 2010, the Brown Boy Project's Liberatory masculinity program
1:40.6	is designed to develop leadership skills,
1:47.6	promote healing, and build capacity to address patriarchal violence. Here's Matisse to tell us more. I got involved with the Brown Boy Project
1:55.6	around 2014, and we just had these beautiful sessions exploring leadership styles and engaging us in some conversations around power. And so it was one of the first times that I'd been sat down and been told that I had power. And I'd struggled with that because in all of those sort of like power frameworks I'd seen, I was like, oh, my multiple marginalized identities means that I'm like, oppressed, oppressed, oppressed.
2:20.4	And I was like, wait, I got the same power as Colin here, the cis man I'm sitting next to.
2:25.2	I think that there was definitely a point in my own relationship with masculinity where I very much reach for masculinity as a shield or a form of protection as a way to not feel as much.
2:38.5	And the ways in which that's shifted or changed over time is I very much in my own practice and
2:44.5	within our brown boy spaces are like, no, how do we feel more?
2:48.9	You know, and really embracing our own
2:50.9	emotionality, our own sensitivity as core to our experience of our masculinity, as opposed
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