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CONFLICTED

Ayatollah vs. Shah

CONFLICTED

Message Heard

History, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

We’ve reached the Iranian Revolution of 1979! The great showdown! The watershed moment when the tensions which we’ve been tracing—between reform and reaction, modernism and tradition—erupted into sweeping rejection of the Western model of modernity and its replacement with something apocalyptic, something both ancient and strikingly new: a Shi’a Islamic Republic. It was out with the Shah, in with the Ayatollah; and the consequences have been without parallel—for the Middle East, and the world. Listen to exclusive bonus content and get all episodes ad-free by subscribing to Conflicted Extra on Apple Podcasts and Spotify for just 99p/month. Join our FB Discussion group to get exclusive updates: https://www.facebook.com/groups/450486135832418 Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted Join the Conflicted Community hub on Discord to discuss all things Conflicted with fellow dear listeners, get exclusive content, bonus episodes and ad-free listening. Register your interest through the link: http://www.levellr.com/conflicted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.8

Amen. I can't thank you enough for the music video you shared with me the other day.

0:05.0

My goodness, it was so moving. Yeah, moving in the wrong direction.

0:12.9

So dear listener, this was a music video for a new, what do you call this? A new national

0:17.5

patriotic, religious, crazy anthem that the Iranian regime released on the 20th of March this year

0:25.2

on the eve of Nowruz, the Persian New Year festival. It's called Salam Commander.

0:31.2

And Amen, describe the music video. Don't describe, don't tell us the words, just like what is

0:35.7

the scene? It's like in a big courtyard of a mosque somewhere. Yeah, it is, you know, the courtyard

0:41.2

of a big mosque in Kumbh and you have all of these young children. Under 10, these are really young

0:47.6

kids. Yeah, very, very young kids. You know, some of them are the children of Iranian martyrs,

0:52.9

Iranian, you know, people who died, you know, for the regime and different theaters. They

0:57.4

aren't there almost tens of thousands and they are chanting that song, you know, with that very

1:03.3

commanding figure who is singing this song for them. Yes, there are all these children in this big

1:08.8

courtyard of a mosque. And they're, you know, some of them are holding pictures of Qasim al-Sulimani,

1:14.5

for example. Yes. And others are holding pictures of their martyred fathers, I guess.

1:19.5

Some of them are in tears, you know, that sometimes they salute the hidden Imam, which the song

1:25.0

is really all about. We've never done this uncomplicated. So let's see if it'll work. I'm going to

1:28.7

ask our producer B to play a little bit of this song and then we'll talk about it. So here is

1:34.4

Salam Commander.

1:50.4

There you have it. That's Salam Commander, a little brief clip. The words are obviously

2:03.1

in Farsi, the language of Iran, but this is what they are in English. Please arrive. I'll give

2:09.6

my life for you. I promise to become your partisan. I promise to fall in love with you. I'll fall

2:16.1

head over heels for you. Despite being so short, I'll become one of your army's commanders.

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