Young Iranian left is in a position where they're discussing the fact that both China and the Soviet Union are selling arms to the Shah or basically having diplomatic and economic relationships with him. And so they need to sort of look to other models. That's where things like Algeria, Vietnam, Palestine, Cuba, et cetera come in. revolutionaries travel to those places to train with these armed guerrillas.
Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the third episode in our four-part series. We pick up in the wake of the US-British 1953 coup against Mossadegh, assess the Shah's repression and attempts to manufacture consent through passive revolution, and then close by laying out the 1979 Islamic Revolution in all of its wild complexity.
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