Iran: What the State Department won't tell you. Panel and Discussion

Join our Political Education Committee and International Solidarity Working Group for a panel and discussion!

Recent U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities have further escalated tensions in the Middle East, raising urgent questions about imperialism, resistance, and the anti-war movement in the U.S. following an ongoing two-year-long live-streamed genocide in Palestine. All of this is unfolding against the backdrop of Iran’s long struggle for sovereignty: from the 1906 Constitutional Revolution, to the 1953 CIA-backed coup that overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh after he nationalized Iran’s oil, to the 1979 revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed Shah and birthed today’s Islamic Republic.

What are the real motives behind U.S. and Israeli aggression toward Iran? How does Iran’s regional role challenge Western dominance? And how should DSA and the organized left respond to escalating militarism while opposing both war and regime-change narratives? Join us for a panel discussion unpacking the current crisis, the decades-long U.S.-Iran conflict, and the geopolitical stakes of oil, nuclear power, and regional influence. We will be joined by a stellar set of Iranian writers, journalists, and organizers: Séamus Malekafzali, Yassamine Mather, Mana Mostatabi, Nima Tootkaboni, and Ervand Abrahamian!