There is still evidence that there are at least some women in the Islamic Republic who support the government right so we have to continue to think about other kinds of nexus of social difference. Your relationship to the government as a woman might be different if you're ethnic minorities versus ethnic minorities. The major clerical figures in Khomeini's small revolutionary council are all obviously they're clerics and they're men but they're also from Persian speaking backgrounds.
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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