UNLOCKED: Veiled Threats w/ Arya Zahedi

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 of our April, 2024 discussion with Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes about the essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. He talks about the uprisings in Iran, including the murder of Mahsa Amini, and his feelings about Iran's role in the proxy wars surrounding the siege of Gaza.

Listen to Part 1 here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101536326

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Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran

Song: Tudeh Party's Hymn to Socialism

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0:00.0	Oh, check out Professor Long Hair. I like it, bro.
0:13.3	I can't hear you. He doesn't have his headphones on.
0:15.0	Oh, okay.
0:16.0	He was making fun of your hair.
0:18.0	I wasn't making fun.
0:19.0	I wasn't making fun.
0:20.0	I was giving props. I said Professor I put up with the long hair.
0:21.6	I love it.
0:22.6	Yeah, thanks.
0:23.6	We're all growing.
0:24.6	I can't grow the hair, so that's why I do.
0:26.6	The beard looks great though, man.
0:27.6	It's a great thing.
0:28.6	If I could have grown the hair, I'd have the whole thing.
0:30.6	I'd feel like wandering garbage, damn. Well, at least you can grow a beard. I just, I'm going bald without the opportunity of beer.
0:38.5	Nice.
0:39.0	Yeah, I just do the clean, you know.
0:41.2	I wish I had your bravery because I want to grow the Costanza.
0:48.5	Nothing says you can't do that.
0:49.9	You can get on your dervish arc.
0:51.9	I know, I could.
0:53.0	I could be the dudes who have like the long hair.
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