In 1979 there's very much this revolutionary mood across different sectors of society even when homingi tells striking workers to go home in some cases that they they don't you know. So pretty much at every every point there is some degree of homingi simply out maneuvering his opponents part of it is the institutional support power of the of the mosque networks. Even among the leftists a dissatisfaction or a or a suspicion of the liberal-muslim camp as exemplified by bazaagon because they saw him as somebody who was going to try to take a conciliatory posture to the u.s. allying themselves with mosada.
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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