On February 25, 2026 Just World Ed launched a series of timely conversations on “The Iran Crisis”, as Part 2 of the project on “Gaza and the World” which it had presented in late 2025.
The first episode in this new series, released in both audio and video formats on February 25, was a conversation that JWE president Helena Cobban conducted a few hours earlier with the strategic analyst Elijah Magnier. They explored issues raised in Magnier’s recent article “The Countdown Between Tehran and Washington: Ultimatum, Escalation, and the Brink of War”.
We’ll be releasing videos of all the convos in this series at 1 pm ET each day on the “Live” feature on Just World Ed’s YouTube page. For audio listeners, we’re releasing them on our channels on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Buzzsprout.
We’re planning additional convos in this series according to this schedule:
- Feb. 26 ~ Bill Quandt, a Middle East/ West Asia expert who was Pres. Carter’s top regional advisor, and is also a veteran analyst of U.S. national-security decisionmaking
- Feb. 27 ~ Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst for several decades who then became a vigorous peace activist and a co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
- March 2 ~ Trita Parsi, a long-time specialist on Iranian and regional affairs who ius also Vice-President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
- March 4 ~ Amb. Chas Freeman, a veteran U.S. diplomatist and strategic thinker with extensive, top-level experience in the strategic dimensions of both West Asia and the U.S.-China relationship.
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