What Happens Next in the Path of the Government?

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In the 1910s, there is a concerted effort to restructure the legal and eventually carceral apparatus of the state in Iran. By 1925, Reza Shah has taken power through a sort of co-led military coup; he consolidates power around himself because of this anxiety about needing a strong centralizing figure. But you start to see a shift in at least some nationalists thinking away from these earlier calls for a matchless or even earlier, the Edalat Khane.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran, from 1906 through the present. This episode is the first in a four-part series, covering the period from 1906 until 1941, from the Constitutional Revolution that imposed constitutional limits on the Qajar dynasty through the 1921 coup that brought to power Reza Khan—who then in 1925 deposed the Qajars and became Reza Shah, the first shah of the Pahlavi dynasty. We end just before the 1941 occupation of Iran by longtime imperial powers, Britain and the Soviet Union, which forced Reza Shah out and replaced him with his son, Muhammad Reza Shah—which is where we will pick up in episode two. RIP Mike Davis. Listen to his Dig interviews here: thedigradio.com/tag/mike-davis Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Read our newsletters and explore our vast archives at thedigradio.com