Section 2 - International Interview with Azadeh Shahshahani Nyeusi Jami The following interview with Azadeh Shahshahani was recorded on January 13, 2020, ten days after the United States assassinated Iranian commander Major General Qassem Soleimani at the Baghdad International Airport. Azadeh is the Legal and Advocacy Director at Project South. She studied Modern Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan and she was born in Tehran, Iran. In the interview Azadeh gives some of the context behind the U.S. empire’s tension with Iran. The interview took place on the R.A.P. (Revolutionary African Perspectives) radio show in Atlanta, GA where Nyeusi Jami is co-host and co-producer. The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement opposes United States militarism and imperialism. When the U.S. empire invaded Iraq, it was Black soldiers on the front line fighting that war. If an invasion of Iran were to happen, it would be us on the front line again, and even more of us. Also, the sophisticated weapons and tanks used in invading Iraq are the exact same weapons that were later given to police departments in this country for them to use to terrorize our Black communities. The empire’s international efforts to exploit other nations have everything to do with us here in the belly of the beast.
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