Hamane who is now the current supreme leader was reading like and translating islamist ideologues. Shariaeti in his life in the early 70s when some of the clerics whom he's criticizing criticized him back they call him a cryptosunni too for some um wahabi tooYeah wahabi wahabi exactly that he is bringing these kind of traditions and ways of thinking about islam that are not indigenous to shiism to iranian shiism into the conversation and confusing listeners yeah i did. I think this when we were to understand the guardianship of the juris i think probably the platonic philosopher kings is a good analogy but it
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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