Going Underground

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Abdulaziz Alghashian, Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Gulf International Forum. Can the Gulf States trust the US after it, along with Israel, unleashed destructive regional destabilization...

In this episode, we speak with Mohammed Baharoon, the director-general of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center. What is the situation on the ground in Dubai as Iranian missiles and drones continue to target UAE? What is the state of the...

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Captain James Fanell, the Former Director of Intelligence of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet. Why did US President Donald Trump start this unpopular war against Iran? Was it dragged in by...

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Rt. Hon. Norman Baker, former UK Home Office Minister for Crime Prevention and Privy Councilor to King Charles III. How has the Epstein Files revelations about Peter Mandelson shaken the political...

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Uri Bar-Joseph, Prof. Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Haifa. Can Israel survive an all-out Iranian retaliation as Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu prepare a second...

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Cuba’s ambassador to the UN, Ernesto Soberon Guzman, amid US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented campaign to strangle the Cuban Revolution by intensifying the blockade. Can Cuba...

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Anatol Lieven, the director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute. He discusses Europe’s self-entrapment over providing assistance to Ukraine as the proxy war against Russia...

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to CIA veteran Prof. Melvin Goodman. In an at times heated interview, Afshin Rattansi and Prof. Goodman cover the looming US war on Iran and why the focus will be Iranian ballistic missiles,...

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Alan Eyre, a former senior adviser for Iran and first Persian-language spokesperson at the US State Department. He discusses the Trump administration’s strategic ambiguity and inconsistency...