The War on Iran
9 Mar 2026, Online, 2PM EST / 6PM BST
Naghmeh Sohrabi, Arang Keshavarzian and Jonathan Shainin
Two prominent scholars of Iranian politics talk to Equator’s Jonathan Shainin about the implications of the US-Israel attack on Iran.
The war waged on Iran by Israel and the US has left a vacuum in power in Tehran. What might a succession plan look like – and, by extension, what is the near future of the Islamic Republic? What are the reactions to the war in Iran as well as in the Iranian diaspora, and what do the differences in these reactions tell us?