Can Iran Survive? An Urgent Discussion on the US-Israel War
Event Date: 10th March 2026
Location: Online, 6pm
On February 28, the US and Israel launched unprovoked attacks against the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashing a war that has rapidly escalated across the region. While Trump and Netanyahu want regime change, the Iranian regime has shown that it will not go down easily. In the face of US imperial aggression, what future for Iran?
Verso is hosting an urgent discussion on the war with Afshin Matin-Asgari, Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, and Ervand Abrahamian this Tuesday, March 10, at 6pm UK/1pm EST/10am PST. Learn more or click the link below to join.
Born in Iran, Afshin Matin-Asgari is Professor of Middle East History at California State University, Los Angeles. In addition to Axis of Empire, Matin-Asgari has published two scholarly monographs and more than two dozen articles and book chapters on modern Iranian political and intellectual history.
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is an assistant professor of the international relations of the Middle East at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Revolution and Its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran.
Professor Ervand Abrahamian is Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics at the Baruch College, CUNY. He is a historian of the Middle East and author of the forthcoming Iran 1979: An Inevitable Revolution (Verso, 2027).
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