Trump’s Intervention in Iran Will Be a Disaster
Iranians have been trying to complete their democratic revolution for over a century. Every time the US gets involved, it sets that project back by decades.
Most of the Iranian population is living very precariously — and the lack of political freedoms has eroded all state legitimacy. (Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
The Trump administration has ramped up its bellicose rhetoric against the Iranian regime after it clamped down on the latest wave of protests. And now, a growing number of reports hint that a major war with Iran is a very real possibility — and very soon.
In this episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber and Melissa Naschek contrast the Iranian Revolution of 1979 with the current protests and discuss what makes a revolution possible.
Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber is produced by Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and published by Jacobin. You can listen to the full episode here. This transcript has been edited for clarity.
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