Khomeini has this ties to the fadayana Islam. However, these sort of Islamist political inclinations are definitely not approved of by Ayatollah Khosim Burejid. His main interests actually were on Islamic philosophy, neuroplatonic philosophy. And he was a very kind of a unique cleric, even sort of reading newspapers and things like this.
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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