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#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
Lex Fridman Podcast
Iran - The Birthplace of Messianic Aspirations
Iran has been the birthplace of Messianic aspirations, going back to ancient Zoroastrianism. The whole system that you see in major religions is parallel or perhaps influenced by Zoroastrianists. So it's a very old phenomenon in Iran, very old. And it's time and the game repeated itself in the course of its history but never as powerfully as it happened in 1979.
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