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Eli Lake and Haviv Rettig Gur on Why Iran's Regime Is Hard to Kill

Eli Lake and Haviv Rettig Gur on Why Iran's Regime Is Hard to Kill

Breaking History

March 31, 20261h 27mExplicit

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Show Notes

What does it actually take to break a regime built on martyrdom?

Eli Lake sits down with Haviv Rettig Gur — host of Ask Haviv Anything and one of the deepest thinkers on the Middle East — to assess week five of the Iran war. They trace the ideological DNA of Iran’'s Islamic Republic from the Algerian National Liberation Front to Frantz Fanon to Ali Shariati, and explain why this is a regime designed to treat its own destruction as a form of victory. Plus: what a color revolution in Tehran could mean for Sunni Islamism, Hamas, and the future of the Palestinian question.

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