With Bush and Akmondinajad in charge, the U.S.-Iran relationship headed toward a deeper crisis. The result happening right now is the third in a series of mass protest movements that have periodically broken out since 2009. Protests echo those that powered the Islamic Revolution in 1979. But this time, protesters are burning their hijabs and chanting death to the dictator and women, life, freedom.
Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fifth and final episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We begin this episode in 1997, with reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami’s surprise landslide election to the presidency. Then we cover the reformists running into hardliner repression and George W. Bush's War on Terror, the 2005 election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his 2009 reelection and Green Movement protests, Hassan Rouhani and the nuclear accord that Trump then tore up, the 2019 mass working-class protests, and the election (but really more coronation) of right-winger Ebrahim Raisi. We end with the death of Zhina Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police and the current mass protest movement that erupted in response.
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