Bonus Edition: Can The Iranian Revolution Succeed? - Mo News Interview with Reza Aslan

Mo News

@mosheh / tentwentytwo

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Iranian Islamic regime is currently up against the biggest threat in more than 40 years. Can this coalition of protesters succeed in bringing down the dictatorship? Mosheh recently spoke to Iran expert and NY Times bestselling author, Reza Aslan, who has a new book out: An American Martyr in Persia. Aslan was born in Iran and his family escaped the rise of the Islamic regime in 1979. We discuss his family history, what led us to the current revolution and what is next. We go through various scenarios on why this revolution might succeed as well as what might cause it to fail. We also discuss his book, which tells the extraordinarily compelling, true story of Howard Baskerville, 22-year old Christian missionary from Nebraska who became a commander in the 1906 Iranian Revolution. Baskerville’s story has lessons for the latest revolution, more than a century later. And finally, Aslan talks about the evolution Islam is currently going through and how it compares to how Christianity and Judaism changed over time. – Please remember to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review. – Mosheh Oinounou (@mosheh) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022. Follow Mo News on all platforms: Newsletter: https://monews.bulletin.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mosheh/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosheh Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MoshehNews Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/moshehnews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mosheh

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0:31.0	Okay, everyone, it's Mojou and I'd like to welcome you back to another Mo News conversation.
0:35.0	This week we're going to dive into those remarkable protests
0:38.0	we've all been watching in Iran over the course of the last month.
0:41.0	I had the opportunity to sit down with Reza Aslan.
0:44.0	He has spent years working on issues and writing about his native country.
0:48.0	Reza also happens to be a New York Times bestselling author
0:51.0	and he has a new book out on a previous Iranian revolution
0:54.0	called an American Martyr in Persia.
0:56.0	It tells the story of how a 22-year-old Christian missionary from Nebraska
1:01.0	ended up as a commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Movement back in 1906.
1:06.0	Iran has a long and complex history but there are some really interesting parallels
1:10.0	between that revolution and what we see unfolding day by day right now in Iran.
1:15.0	I think you're going to get a lot out of this conversation.
1:17.0	Reza and I actually spend most of the conversation talking about
1:20.0	what is happening right now on the streets of Tehran and across Iran
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