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#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
Lex Fridman Podcast
Was It the Beard That Led to the Rise of Khomeini?
He was a man of opportunity. As soon as he would see that a chance and opportunity would open up, he would jump on it. He's basically created an environment in which people looked upon him as a kind of a messianic figure who came to save Iran from what they considered at the time the problems of dictatorship under the Shah. But I also mean he is a man that was able to take power, to become popular, sufficiently popular.
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