The US is backing Saddam Hussein at this point when really not that long before that the US had been supporting the Shah against Iraq. The legacy of the Iran Iraq war then spills over and then continues both internally within Iran so I mean there's so many fightingFighting is so much internal fighting about who gets who gets a defined the Iraq war who are the martyrs I mean who did the martyrs belong to?
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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