Afshin Matin-Asgari has spent decades studying the long, fraught history between Iran and the United States—and as a former participant in the 1979 revolution, who opposed both the Shah and the Islamic Republic that replaced him, his perspective is shaped by direct experience as much as scholarship.

The historian and author of Axis of Empire: A History of Iran–US Relations joined Current Affairs to discuss what history can tell us about the present crisis: from the lasting effects of the 1953 Iranian coup d’état to the myths surrounding Iranian politics and nuclear ambitions.

As calls for regime change grow louder in Washington D.C. and Tel Aviv, Matin-Asgari insists that the future of Iran must be determined not by bombs or sanctions, but by the Iranian people themselves.

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