11 Mar 2026

Professor Seyed Mohammed Marandi joins Radhika Desai in this wide-ranging and
deep-probing interview about the current conjuncture in the US's decades-long
war in Iran. He reflects on why the US is bound to fail, what gives Iran its
resilience, what the succession of Mojtaba Khamenei means for the immediate and
longer future, on the role of Russia and China and, on the overdue expulsion of
the US from the Middle East.