About this episode
Freddie Sayers hosts a debate on the future of Iran featuring contrasting views on regime change and the resilience of its government.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers hosts a debate on the internal future of Iran featuring two clashing geopolitical perspectives: Professor Edward Luttwak - a strategist and expert on international diplomacy, who argues that the Trump administration is successfully pursuing a strategy to achieve regime change via surgical airstrikes; and Dr Arta Moeini - international political theorist and a realist thinker, who warns that the West is dangerously underestimating the resilience of Iran’s decentralised "total state”, and that direct attacks could fuel a civil war that accelerates a global shift toward a new world order dominated by China. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: Freddie Sayers
Guests: Professor Edward Luttwak, Dr Arta Moeini
Topics covered
- Iran
- geopolitics
- regime change
- international diplomacy
- civil war
- global order
Keywords
- Iran
- geopolitics
- regime change
- civil war
- China
- international diplomacy
- Edward Luttwak
- Arta Moeini
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Trump administration, Acast
Places: Iran, China
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