Origins of an Islamic Republic

0:00 Persia at the turn of the twentieth century

6:43 Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions

11:14 Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time?

16:39 How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution

26:43 How Czar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution

32:29 The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran

36:31 The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran

45:01 Reza: Ordinary Iranians actually love American culture

48:51 The internal and external pressures on Iran

57:21 The amorality of foreign policy

Recorded October 25, 2023

Links and Readings

Reza’s book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Reza’s new book, An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville

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