Hello and welcome back to another edition of Hayden's History Hour.

I'm your host, Hayden Daniel, editor of The Federalist.

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and of course, to the premium version of our website as well. Today we're going to be talking about the history of Iran. Now it's quite an expansive

subject but you may have noticed on social media. I certainly have that there's been a lot of

I hesitate to say misinformation but a lot of falsehoods and sort of half-truths about the history of Iran given the war going on right now.

And I just wanted to make this episode to sort of clear up a lot of that and to explain some things.

Some of the more popular myths that have been spread around that I've seen at least include that Islam didn't come to Iran, but for maybe 100 years ago, certainly not true if you know anything about the Middle East.

Or that Iran has been a peaceful place for centuries and centuries,

and this attack by the United States has sort of broken that sort of tranquility in the area,

which, again, is totally ridiculous, and we'll get a pretty clear

picture of that throughout this episode.

So I just want to start from the beginning and go until the revolution in 1979, the sort

of the birth of the regime that we see today.

Now, that's 2,600 years of history,

and we've only got about an hour to cram it in.

So I'm going to space it out a little bit.

There are some very important points that we are going to sort of drill into, but overall,

I'm not going to spend super long time on, say, a lot of the medieval Persian history

because it's less relevant to the story that we're trying to tell.

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