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‘Collective Punishment’: Bombing Iranians for Refusing to Overthrow Their Government

Hassan Ahmadian, associate professor of West Asian studies at the University of Tehran, joins us from Doha to break down how the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has already failed at regime change, and why targeting energy infrastructure is now a desperate act of “collective punishment” that is only pushing Iranians closer to their government.

With regime change efforts failing, @hasanahmadian says the U.S.-Israel strategy has shifted to what he calls “collective punishment” of the Iranian people.

“Why didn’t you rise up against your regime? So you have to pay the price”

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Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.

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