Has Hamas Won? Has Hezbollah Won?

Speaking from Tehran, Prof. Mohammad Marandi Explains the Position of the Iranian Government as It Prepares to Exact Punishment on Israel for Its Assaults on the Islamic Republic

The core polity of the Axis of Resistance is the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the chronically deformed coverage of the Western media, Iran is by far the most demonized country in the world. Iran’s Zionist enemies have worked overtime in their propaganda projects aimed at equating Iran with terrorism.

When anyone with roots in Iran gets interviewed in the Western media, it is almost always an individual or the representative of a group that is hostile to the present government. Way overrepresented in the media are fans of the now-vanquished Shah of Iran and enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s current leadership.

The only significant exception to this rule has been Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor of English Literature and Orientalism as well as Head of the American Studies Department at the University of Tehran

For a time it seemed like Professor Marandi was the only prominent figure in Iran to be frequently interviewed by the likes of the BBC, CNN, ABC, Sky News, PBS, and Channel 4 in the UK. Then it happened that the National Security apparatus in the USA exercised so much power over Western news media that it’s big venues were persuaded to cancel Prof. Marandi. Indeed, he was cancelled along with anyone manifesting loyalty to Iran in its present form, including within its theocratic framework.

Since October 7 Professor Marandi has been somewhat restored in the English-speaking media. He has been adding commentary to media depictions of the Israeli-US genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.

Netanyahu has made no secret of the fact that his goal in the current conflagration is to draw the United States into a regime-change war directed at Iran and its allies in the Axis of Resistance. This Axis includes Hezbollah in Lebanon, Ansar Allah in the Houthi stronghold of Yemen, as well as Shiite fighting forces in Syria and Iraq.

The Importance of Prof. Marandi’s Voice in an Era When Israel Has Led the Way in the Campaign to Vanquish Iran

Until he was 13, Mohammad Marandi grew up in Virginia. Then he moved with his family to Iran.

Prof. Marandi is famous for his ability to explain for English-speaking audiences what is really going on in Iran. He takes the time to elaborate on what both regular people and top officials are thinking about and doing to shape the Islamic Republic as a work-in-progress.

Prof. Marandi’s presence on Western media is all-the-more precious at this moment given the thoroughness of the push to eliminate all voices supportive of Iran from venues of mass communications.

At the moment, however, Iran is at the centre of global attention. The world is living on the edge, waiting for some sort of military response which Prof. Marandi claims is in-the-works. In the accompanying video, Professor Marandi leaves little doubt about the imminence of Iranian military retribution to punish Israel for its anti-Iran, anti-Hezbollah executions.

As Professor Marandi explains it, this Iranian response is coming as a response to the Israeli assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh while he was a guest of the government in Tehran. Iran is also a victim of Israel’s execution of Hezbollah Commander Fuad Sukr. Commander Sukr was also eliminated by Israeli Armed Forces on July 31.

Russia is becoming deeply involved in this matter by seemingly counselling precision and restraint while simultaneously sharing weapons systems with its Iranian ally.

Prof. Marandi asserts that Hamas has already won the war. Hezbollah has already won the war. He explains in great detail how things have become so dire for Israel that it probably will “fail to sustain itself” in the years ahead.

Prof Marandi emphasizes the significance of recent revelations. He clarifies that the government of Israel has added to its embrace of genocide, its embrace of the concept that rape by prison guards is perfectly fine in Israeli dungeons.

Prof. Marandi presents his tremendously incisive account of what is going on in Iran, the region and the world in the form of responses to Danny Haiphong’s questions. Danny, it seems, is speaking for the Axis of Resistance in the series he is hosting.