The National Front in Iran

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The umbrella nature of the national front I think that's super important and ranging from the Iran party to people like Ayatollah Khashani who was very much a rabble rouser. He cultivated, you know, various sort of interests and he actually he was for a time seen as the patron of an important group, islamis group by the name of the Fadayana Islam. And this is obviously something that was going around like assassinating alleged secret pajas. Yeah, I mean it was attacking. It was assassinating politicians.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the second episode in our four-part series. We begin in 1941 with the British-Soviet occupation of Iran, the ouster of Reza Shah and his replacement by his son, Mohammad Reza Shah. We continue with the rise of the Tudeh communist party, the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Mohammad Mosaddegh's National Party coming to power, and the 1953 US-British coup that overthrew Mosaddegh and reinstalled Mohammad Reza Shah as dictator. His brutal reign continued until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which is where we will pick up in episode three. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger haymarketbooks.org/books/1879-the-sinking-middle-class