What's Happening in Iran?

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There was another mass protest movement that erupted in 2019. Iran has become an incredibly powerful, but increasing, but over time, an increasingly resented player ironically because the US opened the door for that by invading Iraq and then ongoing events in Afghanistan. There is just a lot of economic precarity, a lot of discontent and of course that's deeply implicated with political discontent and demands. And we can't get into detail in this, but as Condor mentioned, there are indeed big events in Syria, Iran is decisive in defending the Assad regime.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fifth and final episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We begin this episode in 1997, with reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami’s surprise landslide election to the presidency. Then we cover the reformists running into hardliner repression and George W. Bush's War on Terror, the 2005 election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his 2009 reelection and Green Movement protests, Hassan Rouhani and the nuclear accord that Trump then tore up, the 2019 mass working-class protests, and the election (but really more coronation) of right-winger Ebrahim Raisi. We end with the death of Zhina Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police and the current mass protest movement that erupted in response. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out our vast archives and the rest of this series at thedigradio.com Buy Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win by Helen Shiller haymarketbooks.org/books/1952-daring-to-struggle-daring-to-win