There's no meaningful way for the political opposition to become part of this broader governance structure. So there's an expansion of the state and an Expansion of all of these sort of middle class norms. And as more and more people are being educated in Iran and abroad, especially those Iranian students outside of the country start taking up arms.
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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