Iran: 1906-1941 w/ Eskandar Sadeghi & Golnar Nikpour
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The History of Iran From 1906 Through the Present
In September, mass movements challenging the Islamic Republic broke out after Zina Masa Amini died in the custody of morality police. Understanding what's happening in Iran is difficult from the U.S., which has engaged in a decades-long project of demonizing the Islamic Republic as an exceptionally evil regime. This episode covers the period from 1906 through 1941, from the constitutional revolution that imposed constitutional limits on the Khajar dynasty to the coup that brought Reza Khan to power in 1921. For this special four-part series on Iran, I'm speaking with scholars Escondar Sadiqi Borajerdi and Goulnar Nikpur.
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