The Amine government is in many ways seen as marking this last hurrah for internal reform. The national front and from the second national front has its kind of brief period in the sun. Also, obviously it's in this period that we see the emergence of Ayatollah Khomeini really coming to the,. you know, emerging onto the national scene for the first time.
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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