Is There Really a CIA Influence?

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The head of the queue generals are hideous literally kept in a CIA safe house I mean this is what comes through in the latest tranche of kind of like documents. This kind of revisionist attempt to sort of blame it on the reactionary clergy and it's all their fault and so on and so forth is really just kind of wishful thinking, says Peter Bergen. The British were actually very active and printing kind of fabricated material also saying you know Mossad Dyrk was Jewish or say you know so anti-Semitic kind of tropes trying to tap into those as well as actually printing material where the Tudor were who are actually very careful on this question of explicitly attacking the clergy and Islam

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the second episode in our four-part series. We begin in 1941 with the British-Soviet occupation of Iran, the ouster of Reza Shah and his replacement by his son, Mohammad Reza Shah. We continue with the rise of the Tudeh communist party, the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Mohammad Mosaddegh's National Party coming to power, and the 1953 US-British coup that overthrew Mosaddegh and reinstalled Mohammad Reza Shah as dictator. His brutal reign continued until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which is where we will pick up in episode three. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger haymarketbooks.org/books/1879-the-sinking-middle-class