Reviving Nationalism: Iran's Shift from Sectarianism to National Identity

On Iran and its Axis of Resistance.

Historian Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi talks to Alex about the leadup and aftermath of the so-called "12-Day War between Iran and Israel and the US.

• Hamas and Hezbollah have been humbled, Assad is gone from Syria – how weakened is Iran?

• Did the 12-Day War actually happen? What prevented it becoming a wider war?

• What is the meaning of Israel's maximalist aims of regime change and regional dominance?

• Why is Iran now leaning into Iranian nationalism, even using pre-revolutionary symbols?

• Is a nuclear Iran now inevitable? What lessons will it draw?

• How has the region been reconfigured over the past two years? What about Saudi and the Gulf states?

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Links:

• Iran and the ‘Axis of Resistance’: A Brief History, Eskandar Sadeghi, Jadaliyya

• Culmination, Eskandar Sadeghi, Sidecar

• The Failson and the Flag, Golnar Nikpou & Eskandar Sadeghi