{"podcast":{"title":"Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals","slug":"green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547","podcast_index_feed_id":359547,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://greenandredpodcast.org/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/2717571/2717571-1580334385371-3599dae039cc9.jpg","author":"Green and Red","episode_count":515,"summary":"Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T22:17:14.000533+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547"},"episode":{"title":"Axis of Empire: The History of Iran-American Relations w/ Prof. Afshin Matin-Asgari (G&R 476)","slug":"axis-of-empire-the-history-of-iran-american-relations-w-prof-afshin-matin-asgari-g-r-476","published_at":"2026-03-11T09:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/axis-of-empire-the-history-of-iran-american-relations-w-prof-afshin-matin-asgari-g-r-476","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/Axis-of-Empire-The-History-of-Iran-American-Relations-w-Prof--Afshin-Matin-Asgari-GR-476-e3g61qa","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/116638986/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-9%2F927e0e0b-3119-d544-9a8a-1c5a593c18d4.mp3","summary":"The U.S. and Israel have attacked Iran and killing some of the Islamic Republic's top leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has responded with attacks on Israel, U.S. bases in the Gulf Region, oil infrastructure and by closing the Strait of Hormuz. There is a long history of Iranian and U.S. relations and this war is another part of it. In our latest, we talk with Prof. Afshin Matin-Asgari, author the new book "Axis of Empire: A History of Iran–US Relations," about the current conflict and the relationship over the past 76 years including the overthrow of Mossadegh, the Shah's brutal regime, the Islamic Revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, Iranian adventures in the Gulf, the Obama nuclear deal and the conflict between Trump and Iran's leaders. Bio// Born in Iran, Afshin Matin-Asgari studied in the United States, where he was active in the 1970s anti-shah student opposition. He returned to Iran to participate in the revolution. He lives in the United States and is Professor of Middle East History at California State University, Los Angeles. Matin-Asgari has published two scholarly monographs and more than two dozen articles and book chapters on mod­ern Iranian political and intellectual history, focusing in particular on leftist thought and movements. ------------------------- 🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody 🔗 Links 🌐 Prof. Afshin Matin-Asgari (https://bit.ly/4bwEyxx) 🎙️ Follow Green and Red 🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 💬 Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/jpjeP8sD 📰 Follow us on Substack: https://greenandredpodcast.substack.com 🌌 Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/podcastgreenred.bsky.social 💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast 🎉 Become a Patron: https:/…","meta_description":"The U.S. and Israel have attacked Iran and killing some of the Islamic Republic's top leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has responded with a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4096,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/axis-of-empire-the-history-of-iran-american-relations-w-prof-afshin-matin-asgari-g-r-476/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/axis-of-empire-the-history-of-iran-american-relations-w-prof-afshin-matin-asgari-g-r-476.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}