The Origins of the Armed Struggle

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Militant opposition groups actually going abroad and some of them would have ghost from subsequent to lebanon. It was both sort of religious nationalists but also those who would go into establish the revolutionary guards um following the revolution so it's kind of like in a sense the lexicon of armed struggle. The gorillas were quite aware that by launching kind of gorilla struggle that the regime would basically respond with dramatic and really kind of severe violence, he says.

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. If you love The Dig, support the podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our newsletter and archives at thedigradio.com