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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacket and Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is episode two of our four-part series on the history of modern Iran,

with Eskender Sedigi, Boregeri, and Golnar Nickpur.

In our first episode, and you may want, but do not have to listen to that first,

we covered the Constitutional Revolution of 1906, the Civil War that followed,

and the liberal, clerical, and radical politics that flourished in the years leading up to 1921.

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