A whole generation of young men would in a sense test their metal be shaped by this war irrepropy so and this actually didn't massively go on to define their understanding of Iran's own sort of security doctrine the idea that you know Iran was invaded but it needs to constantly be on the watch out this. It also provides a context I've all even said to like just really clap down internally so apart from clapping down on the left in 83, there were factions within the political elite who were loyal in many ways to the harmonious project or definitely weren't adversarial are completely expunged and driven may have been driven to exile or imprisoned and tortured.
Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fourth episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We pick up in the wake of the Islamic Revolution as Khomeini consolidates power, represses his rivals, and confronts an invasion from Saddam Hussein's Iraq. We continue through the Iran-Iraq War, the mass execution of thousands of leftist prisoners, and Khamenei and Rafsanjani's rise to power after Khomeini's death.
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