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Iran, 1953-1979: From the Shah to Islamic Revolution

Nov 7, 2022

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Saafak and the CIA

01:23

The Quiet Revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini

00:53

The Role of Women in the Iranian Revolution

01:20

The Fadayon Is a New Generation of Revolutionary Fervor

05:00

Introduction

3min

The White Revolution and the Islamic Revolution

3min

The Iran Podcast - Part Three

2min

A History of Iranian Prisons and Carcerality

3min

What Is Saafak?

4min

What Is Saafak?

5min

Is the Shah's Rule a Diktatorship?

4min

Land Reform and the White Revolution in Iran, Golnar

5min

Ammani's Alliance for Progress in Latin America

5min

10.

The White Revolution and Its Effects on Development

2min

11.

Women's Enfranchisement in the Shah

5min

12.

Escandar's Response Alludes to This as Well

2min

13.

The Empress and the Shah Banu

5min

14.

Khomeini's Opposition to Land Reform

5min

15.

Ayatollah Khomeini and the National Front

3min

16.

Ayatollah Khosim Burejid - A History of Khomeini

3min

17.

Khomeini Taps Into This Reservoir of Myth and Symbolism and Memory and All These Sorts of Things

4min

18.

How Did the Shah's Iran Fit Into OPEC?

6min

19.

How Did the White Revolution Ultimately Undermine the Shah's Power?

3min

20.

The Confederation for Iranian Students

3min

21.

What's Happening in the Global South?

2min

22.

The Disenchantment of the Traditional Clergy in Iran

3min

23.

The Shah and the Bazars in Iran

5min

24.

Under the Iron Heal by Akmid White by University of California Press

5min

25.

The Fadayon Is a New Generation of Revolutionary Fervor

5min

26.

What Is Happening in Iran?

3min

27.

The Live From Marxis Critic of the Gotha Program

4min

28.

The Arms Struggle Is the Only Way Forward

2min

29.

The Origins of the Armed Struggle

6min

30.

Ismael Chomaini and the Islamic Revolutionary Party

6min

31.

The History of the Islamic Revolution in Iran

5min

32.

The Legacy and the Memory of the 1953 Coup in the Islamic Republic

2min

33.

Homingi and the Islamic Government in 1979

3min

34.

The Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist

5min

35.

Islamist Radicalism and the Islamic Ideologues

1min

36.

Khomeini's Theory of the Rule of the Islamic Jurist

4min

37.

Women in the Islamic Republic

3min

38.

Kurdish Women in Public Life

4min

39.

The History of Modern Naran Podcast Part 3

2min

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

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