The Iran-Israel Face-Off with Roya Hakakian and Nadine Epstein

What’s really happening inside Iran and why has the government of the Islamic Republic hated Israel for the last 45 years? Is all-out war in the Middle East inevitable or can it be diffused, and if so, how? What do the Iranian people think of their own government and is there any chance that they can successfully topple their repressive government? These are some of the pressing questions addressed by Roya Hakakian, Public Scholar at the Moynihan Center at The City College of New York, and author of Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran and other books, and Moment Editor-in-Chief Nadine Epstein. Part of Moment’s Insight into the Middle East series. 

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