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The Latest on the Iran War with Hamidreza Azizi
Apr 7, 2026
40m 43s
Thoughts on Foreign Intervention in Iran
Feb 12, 2026
8m 30s
Thoughts on the Iranian Opposition
Feb 7, 2026
9m 46s
Thoughts on the Current Iranian Uprising
Jan 15, 2026
7m 12s
1979: The Revolution
Oct 28, 2025
28m 45s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/7/26 | ![]() The Latest on the Iran War with Hamidreza Azizi✨ | Iran warresilience of the Islamic Republic+3 | Dr. Hamidreza Azizi | SWP Berlin | IranU.S.+1 | Iran warHamidreza Azizi+5 | — | 40m 43s | |
| 2/12/26 | ![]() Thoughts on Foreign Intervention in Iran✨ | foreign interventionIran crisis+4 | — | Islamic Republic | — | Iranforeign intervention+5 | — | 8m 30s | |
| 2/7/26 | ![]() Thoughts on the Iranian Opposition✨ | Iranian oppositionregime crackdown+4 | — | Iran’s Radicalized Opposition and the Cycle of Ruin | Iran | Iranopposition+5 | — | 9m 46s | |
| 1/15/26 | ![]() Thoughts on the Current Iranian Uprising✨ | Iranian Uprisingprotests+4 | — | — | Iran | Iranuprising+5 | — | 7m 12s | |
| 10/28/25 | ![]() 1979: The Revolution✨ | Iranian RevolutionIslamic Republic+4 | — | — | — | Iran1979+6 | — | 28m 45s | |
| 9/29/25 | ![]() Cyrus the Great: The Man Behind the Legend✨ | Cyrus the GreatPersian Empire+4 | — | Cyrus Cylinder | — | Cyrus the GreatPersian Empire+5 | — | 25m 26s | |
| 3/30/23 | ![]() A Conversation with John Ghazvinian✨ | US-Iran relationshistory+3 | John Ghazvinian | comprehensive book | USIran | US-Iran relationshistory+3 | — | 46m 34s | |
| 4/18/20 | ![]() Another Conversation with Amir Afkhami - COVID-19 Edition✨ | COVID-19health policy+3 | Dr. Amir Afkhami | — | IranQom | COVID-19Iran+5 | — | 1h 13m 51s | |
| 1/26/20 | ![]() A Conversation with Afshon Ostovar✨ | Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corpshistory+3 | Afshon Ostovar | Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps | — | IRGCIran+3 | — | 1h 02m 02s | |
| 11/23/19 | ![]() A Conversation with Naz Deravian✨ | Persian cuisineculinary transition+3 | Naz Deravian | cookbook | — | Naz DeravianPersian food+5 | — | 50m 07s | |
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| 8/18/19 | ![]() A Coversation with Amir Afkhami | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Amir Akhami, a psychiatrist and a historian of medicine, about the history of cholera in Iran. We talk about his multi-disciplinary career and how his various areas of knowledge converge in his work. We discuss what Cholera is, its history starting in the 19th century and its role in the history of Iran in particular, from a medical, social and political perspective. He takes us through a historical journey all the way from the Qajar era to today... | 58m 09s | ||||||
| 7/4/19 | ![]() A Conversation with Narges Bajoghli | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Narges Bajoghli, an award-winning anthropologist, filmmaker, writer and an Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. We mostly talk about the topics in her upcoming book titled 'Iran Reframed,' which is about the state-controlled media in the Islamic Republic of Iran. We discuss what it means to be pro-regime in Iran and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic ta... | 43m 47s | ||||||
| 4/21/19 | ![]() A Conversation with Reza Zia-Ebrahimi | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, a historian and a Senior Lecturer at King's College London. We talk about what he calls 'dislocative nationalism', a sort of Iranian nationalism that was deliberately devised and disseminated, starting in the 19th century. He outlines the founding of dislocative nationalism and how it aimed to cast Iran’s pre-Islamic period as the nation’s golden age, interpreting Islam as an alien religion. He explains the otherization of Arab... | 48m 34s | ||||||
| 3/9/19 | ![]() End of Season 1 Update | Send us Fan Mail I'm ending Season 1 of talk iran with this short update episode. Stay tuned for Season 2 starting in April! Support the show | 1m 17s | ||||||
| 1/7/19 | ![]() A Conversation with Lior Sternfeld | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Lior Sternfeld, a social historian of the modern Middle East with a particular interest in the histories of the Jewish populations of the region. Lior and I talk about the 2,700-year history of the Iranian Jewish population focusing mostly on the 20th century and the misperceptions of the lives of Jews in Iran. We further talk about how Iranian Jews became a prominent community within Iran during the course of the 20th century, whether Iranian Je... | 30m 59s | ||||||
| 12/7/18 | ![]() A Conversation with Bahman Kalbasi | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Bahman Kalbasi, the New York and United Nations Correspondent for BBC Persian. He and I talk about the recent US sanctions against Iran and the reports of related shortages in food and medicine coming out of that country, how the tension between the US and Iran may unfold, the various Iranian opposition movements in exile and whether they have mobilizing potential, the Jamal Khashoggi murder and its implications on the geopolitics of the Middle E... | 51m 45s | ||||||
| 11/27/18 | ![]() A Conversation with Anna Eskamani | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Florida State Representative Anna V. Eskamani, the first ever Iranian-American to be elected to the Florida legislature and one of only a handful of Iranian-Americans to ever be elected to public office in the US. She and I talk about her historic win, her family background and why she decided to run, why Iranian-Americans have shied away from running for public office in the US, national politics and President Trump, her platform and how she pla... | 30m 59s | ||||||
| 11/24/18 | ![]() A Conversation with Yara Elmjouie | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Yara Elmjouie, an Iranian-American video producer and presenter at AJ+. He and I talk about his time in Iran as a freelance journalist, his background and how he became a video producer, the video making process, Iranian politics and the sanctions, the Iranian-American identity and whether to identify as Persian or Iranian and many other topics. Support the show | 59m 23s | ||||||
| 11/13/18 | ![]() A Conversation with Armin Navabi | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Armin Navabi, an Iranian-Canadian ex-Muslim atheist, secular activist, author and podcaster. Armin and I talk about his experience as a child growing up in Iran and becoming indoctrinated in the Shia Muslim faith, a fateful suicide attempt, how he left religion and started the Atheist Republic online community, the operations of Atheist Republic, atheism and anti-Islamic sentiment in Iran, the government of Iran, the various Iranian opposition gr... | 1h 25m 55s | ||||||
| 10/28/18 | ![]() A Conversation with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Dr. Eskandar Sadeghi, a political and intellectual historian of modern Iran and the Middle East. My conversation with him mostly revolves around Iran’s post-revolutionary reform movement. We further discuss the ascent of Ayatollah Khamenei to become Iran’s Supreme Leader after the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, the presidency of Mohammad Khatami, the obstacles to reform within the Iranian system, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the 2009 Green Movement, curren... | 1h 19m 55s | ||||||
| 10/19/18 | ![]() A Conversation with Maral Karimi | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Maral Karimi, the author of the book 'The Iranian Green Movement of 2009' and a PhD student at the University of Toronto. Besides the green movement and the concepts in her book, Maral and I discuss the overall state of the reform movement in Iran, the alternatives to reform, how the recent protests in that country compare to the 2009 protests, the various opposition groups in exile and other topics. Support the show | 35m 28s | ||||||
| 10/4/18 | ![]() A Conversation with Neda Maghbouleh | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Neda Maghbouleh, the author of the 2017 book 'The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race' and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She and I talk about her background, race within the Iranian and the Iranian-American contexts, the Aryan myth as it exists among Iranians, the history of racial classification in the US, the importance of racial classification or lack thereof, the definit... | 36m 06s | ||||||
| 9/26/18 | ![]() A Conversation with Ervand Abrahamian | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Ervand Abrahamian, a world-renowned author and historian of Iran. We start our conversation talking about the reasons for the success of the clerical establishment in bringing about the Islamic revolution of 1979, and we also talk about the Persian identity versus the Shia identity, the similarities between Zoroastrianism and Shiism, the failure of democracy in Iran, foreign interference in Iranian affairs, the perseverance of the Islamic Republi... | 37m 15s | ||||||
| 9/5/18 | ![]() A Conversation with Anousheh Ansari | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Anousheh Ansari, the first ever person of Iranian descent to travel to space and the first female self-funded space traveler of any nationality. Anousheh and I talk about her spaceflight experience, her background and how her Iranian identity has affected her life, the controversy around having an Iranian flag on her spacesuit, the overview effect and the epiphanies she had looking down on planet earth from space, the future of space travel, her ... | 42m 22s | ||||||
| 8/29/18 | ![]() A Conversation with Hooman Majd | Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with Hooman Majd, an Iranian-American journalist and author. Hooman and I talk about the current level of support the Islamic Republic has inside Iran, the Iranian revolution and the current struggles of the Iranian people, democracy and secularism within the Iranian context, the role of the US and the Iranian diaspora in regards to Iran, the criticism he has received because of his connections to the Islamic Republic and other topics. Support t... | 40m 26s | ||||||
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