# Iran Update With Sina Toossi + Nerdeen Kiswani Sues Betar & Cuban Americans Defend Cuba Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-katie-halper-show-1099067/iran-update-with-sina-toossi-nerdeen-kiswani-sues-betar-cuban-americans-defend-cuba Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-katie-halper-show-1099067/iran-update-with-sina-toossi-nerdeen-kiswani-sues-betar-cuban-americans-defend-cuba.md Podcast: [The Katie Halper Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-katie-halper-show-1099067) Published: 2026-03-06T00:00:34+00:00 Episode link: http://katiehalpershow.com/ Audio file: https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/ac4ca12b-7ccf-4c16-a998-a4fae8b26de2/stream.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-katie-halper-show-1099067/episodes/iran-update-with-sina-toossi-nerdeen-kiswani-sues-betar-cuban-americans-defend-cuba Duration seconds: 9260 ## Resource Katie talks to NYC-based Palestinian organizer Nerdeen Kiswani (Within Our Lifetime - United for Palestine, ) & her lawyer Chris Goodshall-Bennett about suing Betar under the KKK Enforcement Act of 1871. Then Katie speaks to analyst Sina Toossi talks about Iran, world war, & who will win. But first, Katie gets a Cuba update from Danny Valdes, a NYC-based Cuban-American organizer who & Kate Willett, a comedian & the host of the podcast Dystopia Now both of whom doing Cuba solidarity organizing with DSA. Danny is organizing a Cuban-American delegation & Kate is organizing a media delegation, which you can support here, ( https://www.givesendgo.com/aidandjournalismdelegation ) that are part of a convoy to Cuba ( https://nuestraamericaconvoy.org /) Nerdeen Kiswani is a Palestinian organizer from New York City. She is the founder & chair of Within Our Lifetime - United for Palestine, a community organization of Palestinians in exile in pursuit of liberation. Nerdeen has spoken for the Palestinian cause on television programs & at events & conferences worldwide & has organized marches with tens of thousands in support of Palestinian liberation. A graduate of the CUNY school of Law, Nerdeen has organized successful campaigns to pass a resolution by the student government & faculty of CUNY Law to cut all ties & divest from all zionist institutions & defend the right for Palestinians to resist colonization. In 2021 Nerdeen led a campaign that successfully defeated a proposal to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism which it equates with anti-zionism. She is currently suing Betar under the KKK Enforcement Act of 1871. Chris Goodshall-Bennett is a civil rights attorney & Partner at Lee & Godshall-Bennett LLP. He has been… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-katie-halper-show-1099067/episodes/iran-update-with-sina-toossi-nerdeen-kiswani-sues-betar-cuban-americans-defend-cuba/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-katie-halper-show-1099067/iran-update-with-sina-toossi-nerdeen-kiswani-sues-betar-cuban-americans-defend-cuba.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.