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Podcast: Novara Media
Episode: Novara FM: How the West Tried to Co-opt Iranian Feminism w/ Bahar Noorizadeh
Description: When you think about neoliberal states, maybe you think of the UK, or Russia in the 90s, or Chile. You probably don’t think about Iran.
And yet, argues Bahar Noorizadeh, the Islamic Republic has been, since before the 1979 revolution, a neoliberal state – and an imperial one as well.
It has suppressed the Kurdish and Baloch nations inside its own borders.
How can we show solidarity with feminist and national struggles inside Iran and resist the warmongering of the Trump regime at the same time?
Bahar spoke to Eleanor Penny about how t...