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0:00 Introduction — Professor Radhika Desai and the crisis of US hegemony

1:15 Why did the US-Israel war on Iran happen? Competing explanations

3:40 Israel lobby vs structural American strategy

7:20 Was the war really connected to China and global energy control?

12:10 How Radhika Desai defines multipolarity

16:45 Did the war expose the limits of US military and economic power?

21:30 Did Iran change the meaning of multipolarity?

26:40 Why China did not directly intervene for Iran

31:00 China is not the Soviet Union: beyond Cold War thinking

36:20 China’s relations with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf

41:10 Did Beijing pressure Iran toward negotiations?

46:00 Energy routes, maritime chokepoints, and global trade

50:30 Sanctions, financial coercion, and the future of US power

58:25 Can Iran survive while waiting for de-dollarisation?

1:03:10 Why China cannot simply “save” Iran economically

1:07:45 The dollar system and the slow emergence of alternatives

1:12:40 BRICS, elites, and the contradictions of multipolarity

1:16:20 What Iranian policymakers may still misunderstand

1:18:20 Final reflections: hope, sovereignty, and the future of West Asia

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