Hostage to themselves? Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor of English literature & Orientalism, University of Tehran

International politics has never been short of examples of policies producing consequences opposite to what was intended, or of a country’s bravado becoming its biggest liability, but rarely have we seen it come together so vividly and massively as in the Gaza conflict. Did it make the West, despite all the violence it underwrites, a hostage of its own scheming? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor of English literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran and media adviser to the Iranian nuclear negotiating team.