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The Big Picture on the US and Iran
Episode 2153

The Big Picture on the US and Iran

Historian and writer Daniel Immerwahr offers historical context on the war in Iran.

The Brian Lehrer Show

March 18, 202623m 6s

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Show Notes

Daniel Immerwahr, historian, contributing writer at The New Yorker, the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University and the author of How to Hide an Empire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) offers historical context on the war in Iran and Trump's overall foreign policy.

Photo: The aftermath of a US-Israeli strike on Tehran, Iran on March 3, 2026. Credit: محمدعلی برنو/Avash Media via Wikimedia Commons/CC 4.0

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