Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

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Today's episode is with the author, Resa Aslan, who is recently released in American

Martyr in Persia, the epic life and tragic death of Howard Basquiro. This is a recording

that is incredibly timely given the increasing protests in Iran. The book is looking at the

protests slash revolution in Iran in the early 20th century where an American missionary,

Howard Basquiro, the guy in the title, actually was killed in the process of this revolution.

He was a person who was very much inspired by the thought of Woodrow Wilson, which gets

into a bigger debate America's had about what our role in the world should be. So this

conversation is going to look at the past 100 years plus of Iranian protests and revolutions

and the relationship that America does, it doesn't have to set protests. Hope you all

enjoy this episode. And of course, thank you to Lincoln Network and our Supercast subscribers

for supporting this guy in us this far.

Resa Aslan, welcome to the realignment. Thanks for having me. I'm very excited about

this conversation. Yeah, I'm really glad to chat with you. You're falling into a trend

that I've noticed of late where you'll have an author spend a lot of time on a book.

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