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with me Thomas Small alongside my irrepressible co-host Amen Dean. Hello, Amen. Hello, everyone.

Now dear listeners, today we are embarking on a subject which gets Amen animated like nothing

else. In our preparation for this episode, my gosh, I wish you could have seen it. There were

some grand tirades. Fingers pointed in the air while gesticulation. No doubt we'll be getting more

of that in the next hour. Don't worry Thomas. Today I had my yoga. I had my zen in anticipation of

this episode which will boil my blood. After weeks and weeks of looking into the past, the present

and indeed the future of sunny Islamism. For the next few weeks, we're going to be returning to

their great Muslim rivals and our old friends, the Shia Islamists. Hooray! That's right. Over the next

few episodes, we'll be looking at the Iranian nexus of terror in the Middle East, specifically looking

at the growth and consolidation of Hezbollah in Lebanon. But first, we're starting with the grand

daddy of Shia Islamism, the Islamic Republic of Iran. What's the state of play in Persia? How is

this diverse and divisive state constituted? And is there an Iranian future outside the revolutionary

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