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Iran, Gaza, and the West: Yassamine Mather on the Politics Nobody Dares to Discuss

• Thomas Karat

🔥 Oxford Academic and Iranian Scholar Yassamine Mather takes us deep into the political, historical, and personal terrain behind today’s Iran. And she does it with a clarity and honesty that’s almost disarming. T:his was one of the most surprising and revealing conversations I’ve recorded this year.

At one point she casually mentions volunteering for a covert mission in Iran—setting up an underground, anti-government radio station for the fedayeen in the mountains between Tehran and Kurdistan. She tells it as if it were nothing. It’s not nothing. It’s the kind of story that stops you in your tracks.

🎓 Based at the University of Oxford, Yassamine brings decades of political analysis, activism, and academic work into the room:
• the inner logic of the Iranian state• the failures and fractures of the opposition
• the West’s selective outrage• the left’s internal contradictions
• why revolutions rarely deliver what people expect
• and how exile shapes a political mind

And beyond the politics, this conversation shows you the person: sharp, thoughtful, funny, and carrying more history than she lets on.

We even walked through Oxford afterwards—her university access opening doors to places you almost never get to see. It adds something intimate to the whole encounter.

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📝 Also: I just released my analysis of Trump’s National Security Strategy (Nov 2025) on Substack.It’s… something you have to read to believe. A genuine eye-opener.→ https://karat.substack.com

Further Links:
US Ambassador Chas Freeman: https://youtu.be/SiMUmasmulE
Aarnon Milchan, Hollywood billionaire and Super Spy: https://youtu.be/fjy55BS6Y5k
Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/vNCcbrqM4ks
Inside Trump’s 2025 Blueprint for War with China: https://karat.substack.com/p/inside-trumps-2025-blueprint-for?r=1fs9b

Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
03:20 Who is Yassamine Mather
10:00 Shah Reza Pahlavi
15:50 The consequences of taking out Mosaddegh
28:15 The Iraq Iran war
36:10 Jimmy Carters Hostage crisis
39:30 Regime change
41:55 Taking out Iran Proxies
49:45 Killing the negotiators
54:15 Is Irans nuclear project dead
01:09:45 What comes after the mullahs
01:18:45 Can BRICS protect Iran
01:32:55 Can Iran hurt Israel
01:39:20 A radio station in the mountains

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