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'We do not want your bombs': A view from Tehran

Amidst communications blackouts and rising casualties, Jayme Poisson reaches a resident in Tehran to discuss the war, Trump, the Iranian regime, and his pessimistic view about where this goes next. For...

Iran war sparks energy crisis

The world could face one of the most severe shocks to energy markets since the 1970s as we enter week two of the war in the Middle East.The strait of Hormuz, the artery for 20 per cent of the world’s oil and...

Iran’s allies and foes, explained

Images coming out of Tehran over the weekend were apocalyptic, with oil refinery fires burning and massive clouds of black smoke turning day into night.Meanwhile, Iran continues to attack other countries in...

Iran and AI on the battlefield

For decades we have been hearing about the possibility of AI-driven warfare, and now it’s here.Anthropic's AI platform Claude has been reportedly central to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. It was used during...

Iran and the escalation trap

Today on the show, we wanted to bring on Robert Pape. He is a political scientist with the University of Chicago. And we’ve been following his work on his substack “The Escalation Trap” with a lot of interest...

Carney supports Iran war with ‘regret’

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney reaffirmed his support for the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.Carney spoke about the need to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and threatening international peace...

U.S. vs Iran: a decades-old fight

In 1953, the United States helped stage a coup to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, largely a response to the Iranian leader’s nationalization of the oil industry. Twenty-six years...

War on Iran

This weekend after weeks of threats and tense negotiations, the U.S. and Israel began a war with Iran. The developments have been incredibly consequential, from the assasination of Iran’s Supreme Leader to...

India reset, Iran regime change with Minister Anita Anand

As Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand travels with Prime Minister Mark Carney to India, a feature conversation with Anand on the reset of the Canada-India relationship, the U.S. military build-up near Iran,...

ChatGPT and the Tumbler Ridge shooter

This week OpenAI’s head of U.S. and Canada policy and partnerships Chan Park was hauled in front of a meeting with Canada’s AI minister Evan Solomon after it was revealed that Jesse Van Rootselaar’s ChatGPT...