Thoughts on Foreign Intervention in Iran

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Saman Askari discusses the misframing of Iran's crisis regarding foreign intervention and highlights the mass killing of unarmed protesters.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Saman Askari reads his latest Substack essay on how Iran’s crisis is being misframed through debates about foreign intervention. The piece centers the mass killing of unarmed protesters by the Islamic Republic and argues that much Western commentary has obscured that reality by prioritizing abstract geopolitical narratives over the lived experience of repression inside Iran. Drawing on Iran’s history and comparative cases elsewhere, the episode explores why s...

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Host: Saman Askari

Topics covered

• foreign intervention
• Iran crisis
• protests
• geopolitical narratives
• repression
• history

Keywords

• Iran
• foreign intervention
• protests
• Islamic Republic
• geopolitical narratives
• repression
• history

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Organizations: Islamic Republic

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