Date/Time
Date(s) - Tuesday - Mar 31, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Date: March 31, 2026
Time: 11 AM CEST, India: 2:30 PM, Philippines:5 PM
Please register here: https://bit.ly/Iran-widerimplications
Speakers:
- Adam Hanieh (SOAS, University of London)
- Farooq Tariq (Global Council Fight Inequality Alliance)
- Emad Kiyaei, (Director Middle East Treaty Organisation)
- Maga Ferre (President, Transform! Europe)
- Summing up: Anuradha Chenoy (AEPF))
- Moderators: Brid Brennan (TNI) and Corazon Fabros (IPB)
Organizers: Asia Europe Peoples Forum (AEPF), International Peace Bureau (IPB), Transnational Institute (TNI) and Fight Inequality Alliance (FIA)
Introduction
The United States of America and Israel war of aggression on Iran is an extension of the Zionist genocide in Gaza and the “greater Israel’ agenda that combines with the interests of US imperialism.
This is the 2nd time (June 2025- 12-day war) that Iran has been attacked while conducting negotiations on its uranium enrichment with the US. The US-Israel murder of Iranian supreme leader, political leaders, over 160 schoolgirls, and over a 1000 civilians casualties did not succeed in regime change as expected. Instead, Iran has retaliated by targeting American bases across the GCC and closing the
Straits of Hormuz through which Asian countries get a large part of their oil. This war has spread regionally and has deep implications on the fossil-fuel economies globally as it threatens energy insecurity, oil price fluctuations, fertiliser and food shortages in West Asia and beyond. It threatens inflations and shutting down daily life in small states.
Israel has launched military operations against South Lebanon and forced over a million people to evacuate, in keeping with their desire to create a greater Israel and destabilize the region to assert Zionist regional hegemony. The US Israel strategy to control oil and gas reserves that Iran sits over; to disembody the state of Iran that has backed the cause of Hamas and Palestinian people and supported a resistance of non-state actors to genocide is a plan that Iran resists. Meanwhile the genocide against Palestinians continues both in Gaza and the West bank.
In their Press Conference of March 9th, Kallas, EU responsible for Security and Foreign Affairs, did not condemn the American-Israeli strikes on Iran as a violation of international law. Instead, EU President Von der Leyen said the EU should move beyond analyses and address “the reality of the situation” and “the world as it actually is”. It seems she means to continue complicity in this US-Israeli genocidal war – that also now extends to Lebanon. Likewise EU member states have failed to make a clear condemnation of the war on Iran, with the exception of Spain. Britain France and Germany have chosen the language of “defense of national interests” and are saying it is not ‘NATO’s war – but have not ruled out sending warships to the Strait of Hormuz.
This webinar aims to support social movements in Asia and Europe to understand the broader implications of this war for Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, West Asia, for Europe and the Global South. What impact does it have on energy security and political economy of fossil fuel economy, the impact on states within and outside the region. We examine the resistance against wars and naked imperialism.