In this episode of ‘Mehdi Unfiltered’  Mehdi gets straight down to the facts on Iran with one of the world’s leading authorities on Middle Eastern politics and Shia Islam – Vali Nasr.

Vali Nasr is an Iranian-American author and academic who formerly served as a Senior Adviser in the Obama State Department and provides his expert analysis on all the wide-ranging issues that have come out of the protests in Iran. In this interview he discusses just how bloody Iran’s repression has been, the role of foreign agitators, whether the US would see revenge attacks if Trump were to take out Iran’s Supreme Leader and what civil war could look like in Iran among other things.

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