Radio War Nerd

Guest: Mohsen Milani Recorded: September 15, 2025 Here's part 2 of our talk with Mohsen Milani about the Islamic Republic of Iran's evolving geopolitical strategy. In this episode, we discuss Iran's varied relationships with the Axis of Resistance: Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas, PIJ, Iraqi militias, and

Guest: Cyrus, MENA researcher *Guest co-host: Aamer Recorded: December 6, 2024 We talk to friend of the show "Cyrus" about the two major recent events: the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, and Assad's collapsing Syrian state. (Note: The War Nerd had to slip away on a dark mission before recording this ep

Guest: Joshua Landis, Director of Center for Middle East Studies Recorded: December 9, 2022 The war in Ukraine has sucked all the west's attention away from other wars around the world, including the Syria war, which was once the star of the NATO thinktank world. Dr. Joshua Landis is of the few west

Guest: Joshua Landis, Director of Center for Middle East Studies & blogger Recorded: January 25, 2022 Our monthly World Of Wars looks at two wars: the phony Russia-Ukraine war that NATO & western media is screaming about...and the grim, real ongoing war in Syria, which NATO and the western media don

Guest: "Cyrus", MENA researcher Recorded: June 15, 2020 Are the nationwide protests across the US anything like the Arab Spring? We spoke to MENA researcher "Cyrus", who has spent much of the past two decades in the region researching the political changes from the US invasion of Iraq up through to

Guest: EHSANI Recorded: February 18, 2020 PORTLAND—The War Nerd returns to the Free World (free to be manhandled by Border Police jackboots, that is) to discuss the death of Charles Portis, Lebanon & Syria, and Sinn Fein's victory. 00:00 — "The fat eagle has landed": The Nerd & Ames on Portlandia &