The Arms Struggle Is the Only Way Forward

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i think the arms struggle as a form of kind of revolutionary praxis is the only way forward. i just thought it was important to show on the one hand that there's various different groups who had come to a certain political alignment or political commitments independently of one another. We see a number so a number of their militants actually going to alman to participate and support um the various marxist land in this groups in dafar as he fighting against trying to overthrow the sultan in in orman.

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