Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi discusses the major push by Trump & Israel back to war with Iran. From a third carrier strike group now promised to region in just a few days, plus reports of massive transfers of weapons to the theater, Prof. Marandi will break down the geopolitical dynamics and consequences of the US-Israeli global war now targeting Iran.
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi of Tehran University, a former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, talks with Glenn Diesen about whether Egypt may join the Saudi war and about a wider war coming.
Iran's missile blitz overnight in the Strait of Hormuz represented the largest in months as the pressure is on Trump to settle on a deal he's rejected or return to full war. Prof. Mohammad Marandi discusses the breaking developments as war escalates.
The war in Yemen is entering a new phase. With Saudi Arabia facing renewed Houthi attacks and the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, could Pakistan and Turkey become directly involved in the Yemen conflict?
In this interview, Mohammad Marandi examines the strategic meaning of the Mecca defence pact, the interests of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, the complex relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and the wider regional implications of the conflict.
We also discuss whether regional powers are being drawn into a broader confrontation, the role of mediators in Iran-US relations, and where the US-Iran conflict could go from here.
Timeline:
0:00 Geopolitical tensions and regional alliances
0:32 The Yemen conflict and regional stakes
5:13 Popular sentiment in Pakistan and Turkey
11:30 The future of Iran-Pakistan relations
16:25 The Iran-Saudi Arabia dynamic
23:50 US-Iran relations: strategy or stagnation?
32:19 Nuclear threats and global security
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Professor Seyed Mohammed Marandi tells Jamarl Thomas that Iran went on full alert after judging a US attack was coming, and that the chance of renewed war is high. Trump’s threats to wipe Iran out, he says, no longer change Iranian planning. He doubts the United States would arrest Araghchi or Pezeshkian during a visit, but says Iran would answer militarily if it tried.
He then sets out five scenarios. All-out strikes on Iranian infrastructure would be met by the destruction of Israeli and Persian Gulf infrastructure, the collapse of those states, and a global depression with oil and gas cut off for years.
A limited campaign against bases and missiles would fail, he says, because the important assets are underground or hidden among decoys, and Iran would shut the Strait of Hormuz, which is only partly open with Iranian consent.
Continuing the present policy still drives the US and world economy downhill, only more slowly. Declaring victory and walking away would not normalize the strait until Iran’s demands are met. The only route he accepts is for Washington to carry out the commitments Trump signed in the memorandum.
Iran is shifting to a wartime economy and is prepared for a fight that could last until the next US president, though Marandi doubts the American economy can last that long. He says Iran is militarily stronger than six months ago, and that a US strike on Ansar Allah would bring an Iranian response.
Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor at Tehran University and former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, with Glenn Diesen on a US-Iran war he says could be days or hours away and engulf the region.
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran, with Rachel Blevins on a U.S. munitions crunch, economic pain in the Persian Gulf, and decades of sanctions that he says were meant to strangle Iran. Marandi argues the global economy will feel the cost if the war continues, including the risk of a depression.
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Tehran University professor and former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, talks with Glenn Diesen about Houthi (Ansar Allah) advances and why Iran is set to escalate.
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi of Tehran University, a former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, talks with Glenn Diesen about Iran's threat to send Netanyahu to "hell" and rising pressure on the U.S. after economic warfare against Iran.
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi with Nima Alkhorshid of Dialogue Works on Iran activating a war economy and military surge as all-out conflict becomes more likely.
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Pakistan is the latest country to hit back after the White House threatened countries who trade with Iran. China has already said it won’t be taking orders from America. So is this another failed bid by Donald Trump to bend Iran and its backers to his will?
Or could this actually work? Several senior Iranian leaders have recently acknowledged the economic pain that the country and its people are feeling.
On this episode of The Fourcast, Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Mohammed Marandi, a professor at Tehran University and a former adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiating team to get a view from inside Iran.
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi and Danny Haiphong on Iran's new offensive strategy after US economic warfare, and Iran's warning that a next strike could wipe out US oil.
Marandi says Iran has a weapon even more devastating than a nuke and is ready to use it if necessary.
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Nima Alkhorshid of Dialogue Works speaks with Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi about a sharp drop in oil shipments and pressure on Gulf states via Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab.
The discussion covers how chokepoint disruption hits energy markets and regional politics, and what that means for US and Gulf strategy in the wider Middle East conflict.
A concise geopolitics update on oil logistics, Hormuz leverage, and the squeeze on Gulf economies.
Prof. Mohammad Marandi joins from Iran to discuss the blistering developments in the war including Iran's powerful response to Trump's attack threat which has the US and Israel backing down from the edge of catastrophic war.
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Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team. Prof. Marandi discusses Saudi Arabia's miscalculation in terms of attacking Yemen. Trump has trapped himself in the Iran War, and his options keep getting worse.
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Seyed Mohammad Marandi joins to discuss why he believes the most dangerous phase of the Iran war has just begun as Iran's strikes become more devastating and the Trump prepares the unthinkable out of desperation. .
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Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team. Prof. Marandi discusses the plans for a U.S. land invasion of Iran, and how the participation of Yemen and Iraq in the war can change the character of the war.
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Chris sat down with Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi — Professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran, and one of Iran's most prominent English-language analysts — in Tehran, during the funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei.
What followed was one of the most frank and wide-ranging conversations about Iran, the war, Western narratives and the future of the resistance that we have ever recorded.
Prof. Marandi was clear: every myth the West has promoted about Iran for decades — corrupt, imploding, morally bankrupt, unpopular, a house of cards — was destroyed in full view of the world during Khamenei's funeral. And the West couldn't hide it this time.
• "All the myths about Iran were nonsense — and they were destroyed. Not that they won't go back to them in a few weeks." • "I had no doubt we would win the war from day one. Almost everyone I know abroad thought Iran would collapse in days." • "When we speak about popular legitimacy, the Islamic Republic is more legitimate than any Western government." • "They are the regimes. Not Iran." • "The Epstein class, the oligarchy, the Zionists — they won't learn." • Even under war, siege and sanctions, Iran sent aid to Venezuela — "Who else would do that?" • The role of Shia Islam and Iranian nationalism — "There is no separation between the two." • On the Iranian diaspora used by Western media: "Orientalized Orientals. The comprador class. They try to be more American than the Americans." • On Erdogan: "Trump says he's more obedient to me than my European partners." • On a future security architecture: Iran's relations with Russia, China and the Global South will expand — but Iran will not bow to any power. • Putin at SPIEF openly said he was surprised by the outpouring of support for Khamenei — and called it confirmation of Iran's strength.
Recorded in Tehran. During the largest funeral in human history.
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Seyed Mohammad Marandi discusses why Trump is fuming after Iran's massive retaliation spanning the UAE, Jordan, Qatar and nearly every Gulf state as US attacks overnight blow back into all out war as Lindsey Graham's death sends shockwaves across the US and Israeli regimes.
