E244 - Ayatollah Assahola w/ Arya Zahedi (Part 1)

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Middle East scholar Arya Zahedi of Insurgent Notes discusses his new essay Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran from Ill Will Editions. In part 1, he talks about what the left gets wrong about Iran and its political history through the 1979 revolution, hostage crisis, and counterrevolution.

For Part 2 of the episode, about the uprisings against the Islamic Republic and expanding conflict in the Middle East today, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifada

Read the essay here: https://illwill.com/iran

Song: Planet Smashers - Ska of Iran

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0:00.0	I'm pretty high and on high I mean it might be a little bit of last night.
0:07.0	I just maintain that you know.
0:09.0	Yeah, it's good.
0:10.0	April 20th starts early for you, huh?
0:12.0	Starts on April 1st.
0:13.0	It never ends, dude.
0:15.1	20 wonderful nights.
0:17.8	On the first day of Hitler's birthday.
0:22.3	We're here with our old friend Ariza Haiti. Thanks for joining us.
0:27.0	What's happening? What's up, man? It's been a long time. You're talking to us from Baltimore, the site.
0:33.7	Baltimore, Maryland.
0:34.7	Baudy morgue murder lands, as we used to call it.
0:37.7	Oh, did you know?
0:39.1	That's what the Micah kids would call Baltimore.
0:41.7	I don't know.
0:42.4	I just had some friends who went to
0:43.4	Micah and they that was their joke about how dangerous it was. Yeah I mean I've heard
0:47.6	that that is a very common sort of saying and a plane but it's become so
0:52.0	cliche at this point you know what I mean?
0:54.3	Well, Baltimore has been in the headlines recently as the site of the most recent
0:59.2	epic disruption of international supply chains.
1:03.2	We had the Dolly shipping container boat.
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