An Update on the US-Israeli War on Iran

Afshin Matin-Asgar

California State University, Los Angeles

Sunday, December 13, 2026

Lecture in Persian

Royce Hall 314, 4:00pm

Zoom link for hybrid online viewing: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97189398973
Registration requested: https://forms.gle/NvbydTUWyWui9x9z7

Based on the research published in, Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations, this book talk will briefly review the events leading to the US-Israeli war on Iran, followed by a summary of the most recent developments in the war and a discussion of how they are interpreted by Iranian and international scholars and political observers.

Afshin Matin-Asgari is professor emeritus of modern Middle East history at California State University, Los Angeles. His specialty is 20^th century Iranian intellectual and political history, particularly leftist movements. He is the author of Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah: 1960s-1970s (Mazda Publishers, 2002), Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations (Verso Publishers, 2026), as well as more than thirty articles and book chapters.