Gorillas' influence is both massive in the sense of everyone knows about them they are really emphasizing to ordinary people how brutal sauvak is. They link all of these global revolutionary trends to what's happening in iran and this becomes part of the kind of ether in which political thought is swimming in the 1970s. Their groups are decimated by 1977 so at the moment that the cracks really start to show in the shah's government they're not positioned in such a way as to take advantage of those of those cracks.
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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