On this edition of Your Call, we're discussing the ongoing US-Israel military attacks on Iran, which has grown into a regional crisis.
On Saturday at 9:45 am in Tehran, Israel and the United States launched a sweeping aerial assault on key Iranian military and security sites. The strikes killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several senior commanders. Soon after, a strike on a girls’ school in Minab, in the southern Hormozgan province, killed 165 people.
Why did the US and Israel launch these attacks? How are people inside Iran — and in the diaspora — responding? And what is the endgame for Iran, the United States, and Israel?
Guests:
Ida Nikou, sociologist, writer, and political activist working at the intersection of political economy, labor relations, and social movements
Arang Keshavarzian, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, and author of Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East
Nilo Tabrizy, investigative journalist, and author of For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising
Resources:
EQUATOR: An Explosion Long in the Making'
MERIP: Governing Crisis—Sanctions, Austerity and Social Unrest in Iran
New Line: Iran’s Supreme Leader Is Dead, but Its People Remain in Peril
