Dig: Iran, 1979-1997. Islamic Republic, War, and Thermidor
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fourth episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We pick up in the wake of the Islamic Revolution as Khomeini consolidates power, represses his rivals, and confronts an invasion from Saddam Hussein's Iraq. We continue through the Iran-Iraq War, the mass execution of thousands of leftist prisoners, and Khamenei and Rafsanjani's rise to power after Khomeini's death.
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| 1:17.3 | Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting |
| 1:23.7 | from Providence, Rhode Island. This was supposed to be a four-part series on the history of modern Iran, |
| 1:31.6 | but folks were actually going to give it two in five parts because there's just too much |
| 1:36.9 | ground to cover. In episode three, we left off with the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, |
| 1:42.5 | which ousted the Shah. This episode, we begin with the period of openness following the revolution, |
| 1:48.8 | shifting into the consolidation of power by Khomeini's Islamic Republic Party, |
| 1:54.5 | which deftly exploited the seizure of the American Embassy by radical Islamist students |
| 1:59.8 | to accelerate a revolutionary fervor conducive to them. Khomeini's camp marginalized their |
| 2:06.5 | revolutionary rivals and monopolized power in the assembly convened to draft a new constitution, |
| 2:13.2 | successfully pushing for a maximalist text that enshrined clerical supremacy through Khomeini's |
| 2:19.4 | principle of the guardianship of the Islamic jurist. Iraq's invasion of Iran, under Saddam Hussein, |
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