The group that is going to be popularly known as the fadayon they storm a gendarmory post in northern village by the name of siyakad if their effort is a total failure at the level of a sort of military operation they are not successful but it becomes a big kind of public relations triumph for the new generation of revolutionaries. The majority of people who sort of fall into the leftist camps tend to have come from families that were already part of the sort of modernizing middle classes secularist middle classes. All of this could have happened without a revolution right there are content i don't want to think too teleologically from 1970, 70, 70, 1, 72 or
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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