0:00 Persia at the turn of the twentieth century
6:43 Woodrow Wilson’s contradictions
11:14 Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time?
16:39 How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution
26:43 How Czar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution
32:29 The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran
36:31 The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran
45:01 Reza: Ordinary Iranians actually love American culture
48:51 The internal and external pressures on Iran
57:21 The amorality of foreign policy
Recorded October 25, 2023
Links and Readings
Reza’s book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza’s new book, An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
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