Interviews

An hour-long episode of Kalameh TV's "Zero Hour," hosted by Ahmad Raafat, with Mohsen Sazegara (from Washington) and journalist Mehdi Nakhl-Ahmadi. The discussion weighs the risk of a new war in the region: U.S. election politics and Trump's stance, economic pressure and fuel prices in America, reports on military…

A long-form Radio Farda conversation with Mohsen Sazegara, hosted by Roya Karimi-Majd for the series Derang. He looks back on his political life: accompanying Ayatollah Khomeini at Neauphle-le-Château, helping found the Revolutionary Guards, government posts in the early Islamic Republic, reformist journalism, prison…

Iran-e Farda's weekly roundtable with Mohsen Sazegara on war and peace and the strategies of the U.S. and the Islamic Republic.

On Marjane Satrapi's remarks, Trump's policy and the puzzle of the supreme-leader succession.

On the power struggle between factions inside the Islamic Republic.

A "Crisis Room" panel with Sazegara on the legacy of the 1979 revolution, the idea of transition, and whether Iran still lives within the paradigm of 1979.

The Trump–Netanyahu relationship and the Islamic Republic's internal crisis.

On the Strait of Hormuz, its role in the war, and the wider global balance of power.

A conversation on Trump's policy and whether he is toying with the hopes of the Iranian people.

Why Trump moved to a ceasefire, and what it means for Iran.

A discussion of the contradictions in Trump's statements and policy on the war and the Islamic Republic.

A long English-language conversation (about 1 hour 40 minutes) with Rafaela Siewert of The Free Press, recorded in the first weeks of the war. Sazegara recalls working alongside Khomeini at Neauphle-le-Château and the flight back to Tehran, his part in the original design of the Revolutionary Guard as a small people's…