Dr. Roger Higginson | The West’s Fatal Miscalculation

For decades, the West has viewed Iran through the lens of extremism, nuclear fears, sanctions, and permanent crisis. But beneath the revolutionary rhetoric lies something much older: a civilization shaped by invasion, survival, isolation, and a deep fear of collapse.In this episode of Frontlines & Backrooms, Dr. Roger Higginson joins us for a long-form conversation on how Tehran actually sees the world — from its historical memory and strategic paranoia to regime survival, proxy wars, geography, nationalism, and the growing Russia–China–Iran axis.We discuss why so many Western assumptions about Iran continue to fail, how negotiations collapsed under military pressure, why Tehran sees itself as a besieged state rather than an expansionist one, and why regime change logic may be one of the greatest strategic miscalculations of the modern Middle East.This is Iran explained from the Iranian perspective.