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.
As Ayatollah Khamenei's state funeral draws millions of Iranians and nearly 50 foreign delegations to Iran this week, we ask: what does this moment mean for Iran's internal stability, its standing in the region, and its fragile truce with Washington?
Since the June 17th Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding brought a fragile end to the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, the agreement has faced serious strain. The June 26th Israel-Lebanon framework ties Israeli withdrawal to Hezbollah's disarmament, and low-level attacks between Iran, the U.S., and Israel continue. Is the Trump administration genuinely pursuing a grand bargain with Tehran, or is this just a tactical pause before renewed conflict?
In this episode (recorded July 6, 2026), Mehlaqa Samdani and Dr. Atiqa Batul are joined by:
🔹 Dr. John Mearsheimer — Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago — on the fragility of the MOU, the Strait of Hormuz, whether Iran is emerging as a fourth pole of global power, and what America's foreign policy history teaches about dealing with Iran.
🔹 Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi — Professor of English Literature and Orientalism, University of Tehran — on Khamenei's succession, Tehran's read on the MOU's survival, the Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan-Egypt regional recalibration, Iran's information war, and the lessons of Iran's development under decades of sanctions.
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Mohammad Marandi discusses the massive funeral for the ass*assinated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei from on the ground, and analyzes the massive strait of Hormuz bombshell dropped by Iran when no one was watching.
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As Iran and the United States begin a new round of negotiations in Switzerland, major questions remain about the future of West Asia, Israel's regional position, and America's long-term strategy.
In this special discussion, Professor Mohammad Marandi and former US diplomat Ambassador Chas Freeman examine:
• What is really at stake in the Iran-US talks?
• Has the Iran war changed the regional balance of power?
• Why public opinion toward Israel is shifting inside the United States after Gaza and the Al-Aqsa Flood.
• The debate within Iran's leadership over negotiations with Washington.
• The rise of a new generation of Iranian leaders shaped by decades of sanctions, pressure and conflict.
• The role of the military-industrial complex in sustaining American intervention abroad.
• Whether West Asian countries can build new forms of cooperation independent of Western dominance.
• The future of US military bases and trillion-dollar military spending.
This conversation explores the geopolitical consequences of the Iran war, the future of the US-Israel relationship, regional diplomacy, and the emerging multipolar world order.
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Seyed Mohammad Marandi discusses Israel's sabotage of the US-Iran MoU deal which now hangs in the balance as Tehran prepares retaliation against Israel's latest attack on Beirut.
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Prof. Mohammad Marandi joins the program from Iran to discuss the latest attack from Iran as it enforces blistering control over the Strait of Hormuz. Has Iran's power only begin to take shape in the region? We talk this and much more in this live show.
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Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team. Prof. Marandi discusses Iran extending its deterrence to Lebanon, the subsequent strikes by Iran on Israel, and Israel's retaliation against Iran that humiliated Trump, while Yemen bans access to the Red Sea for Israeli ships.
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Professor Mohammad Marandi joins me live to break down the latest developments in the Iran war and the growing role of China behind the scenes.
We’ll discuss the current status of the conflict, why Donald Trump now wants to meet with Iran's leader in person! As Iranian oil shipments continue flowing to China despite Western pressure, this conversation explores whether the Iran-China partnership is becoming one of the most important geopolitical alliances in the world today.
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Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team.
Prof. Marandi discusses how Iran's toll booth is already operating, why Iran hit Kuwait, the decline of Israel & the suspicions that Iran will now aquire a nucear weapon for deterrence.
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Mohammad Marandi joins the show to discuss Iran’s massive retaliatory strikes on US bases in the Middle East as major economists panic that catastrophe looms just one week away, Iran called Trump’s bluff but how did he react? What is the significance of this latest escalation? We answer these questions and much
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