This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by an all-star panel of new and old friends of the show to discuss the growing threat of war against Iran and the challenges of renewed nuclear negotiations as well as the Islamic Republic’s commitment to Palestinian liberation and anticolonial solidarity.

Assal Rad is an Iranian American historian, a fellow at DAWN and the author of State of Resistance: Politics, Culture and Identity in Modern Iran.

Sina Toossi is an Iranian American policy analyst and fellow at the Center for International Policy.

Sina Rahmani is an Iranian-Canadian historian as well as the creator and host of The East is a Podcast.

Navid Zarrinnal is an Iranian historian, assistant professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, and host of The Colony Archive on YouTube.

Follow Assal on Twitter @AssalRad, Sina Toossi at @SinaToossi, Sina Rahmani at @UrOrientalist and The Colony Archive @ColonyArchive.

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Episode 248 – Iranian Exceptionalism