The Wire (Podcast)
Dispatches from the Warfront to the Homefront
FAI WIRE PODCAST // Popular Revolution Continues In Iran
October 31, 2022 • Gabriel Caligiuri
Forty-four days after the death of Masha Amini, street demonstrations and labor strikes continue in cities across Iran and abroad, even as the head of Iran’s notorious revolutionary guard corps issues a veiled threat against demonstrators.
FAI WIRE PODCAST // Azerbaijan Attacks Armenia
September 19, 2022 • Gabriel Caligiuri
At least 135 Armenian soldiers are dead and over 7600 civilians displaced after a short but intense campaign by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces into Armenian territory last week. The latest round of hostilities began Tuesday when Azerbaijan began a coordinated artillery and drone bombardment across its shared border with Armenia.
FAI WIRE PODCAST // Militias Battle for Iraq
September 5, 2022 • Gabriel Caligiuri
Rival Shiite militias clashed in Iraq last week, as a power struggle between infamous cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his political opponents spilled over from parliament into the streets of the heart of Baghdad’s Green Zone.
FAI WIRE PODCAST // US, Iranian Militias Trade Blows in Syria
August 29, 2022 • Gabriel Caligiuri
US warplanes pummeled a facility in Syria used by Iranian-sponsored militias last Wednesday, after two suicide drones targeted American and Syrian rebel forces at the Al-Tanf base in southern Syria on August 15. Iranian-linked militias responded with rocket fire which wounded 3 US service members.