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Gregk speaks to the author of a new book on US-Iran relations to place the two countries’ braided history in its proper context and make sense of… how we got here.

Axis of Empire: A History of US-Iran Relations is out now, available from Verso

Image: A photograph of a large anti-USA mural painted on the side of a residential apartment block in downtown Tehran

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For this week’s newsletter, we present four articles which collectively paint an interesting picture of our current conjecture, beginning with the text of Iran’s fourteen-point MoU with the US, running through the UFC spectacle at the White House, and concluding with an excellent recently-published interview with Alberto Toscano.