The revolution itself temporarily kind of starts to happen on a shia clock beginning in january of 1978 one of the main newspapers in iran publishes this piece that is basically an anti-ulama anti-homani piece. The government responds in force and there's a massacre which sets off a series of protests marking every 40 days after that initial set of that initial massacre. This was a very masterfully politicized as a way that protesters could know when the protests were happening without having to communicate in channels that might be compromised right.
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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