Farhana Yamin, Reetta Toivanen & Rana Dajani: Iran, Gaza Reax - Why Never Again Is Now

About this episode

The episode discusses the Iran crisis and its parallels with Gaza, featuring a live conversation with experts on radical ideas for change.

Hospitals in Iran are preparing to evacuate children. International institutions are issuing statements while bombs fall on petrochemical plants. And five women sit down in Berlin to ask: what radical ideas should actually be common sense? A leadership podcast about people, power and possibilities. This episode of If You Were In Charge opens with hosts Sanam Naraghi Anderlini and Kavita Ramdas in conversation about the Iran crisis. Trump’s threats of escalation, the spectre of nuclear disaster, and the devastating parallel with Gaza. They ask the question that frames the whole episode: have the institutions built by generations of careful, caring work, the UN, the IAEA, international law has finally failed us? Then the episode moves to Berlin, where Sanam and Kavita are joined by three extraordinary guests for a live group conversation recorded at the Robert Bosch Foundation Forum: Farhana Yamin — World-renowned climate lawyer. Attended COP 1 in Berlin in 1995. Now working on global governance and philanthropy for frontline communities. Reetta Toivanen — Finnish legal anthropologist and Professor at the University of Helsinki. Researches refugee knowledge and just transition in…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, Kavita Ramdas

Guests: Farhana Yamin, Reetta Toivanen, Rana Dajani

Topics covered

• Iran crisis
• Gaza conflict
• international law
• climate justice
• refugee rights
• trauma and agency

Keywords

• Iran
• Gaza
• international institutions
• climate law
• refugees
• trauma
• diaspora economies
• nuclear disaster

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Robert Bosch Foundation Forum, UN, IAEA

Places: Iran, Gaza, Berlin

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