Iran, 1997-2022: Reform, Reaction, and Crisis
The Dig
Daniel Denvir
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🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the fifth and final episode in what is now a FIVE-part series. We begin this episode in 1997, with reformist cleric Mohammad Khatami’s surprise landslide election to the presidency. Then we cover the reformists running into hardliner repression and George W. Bush’s War on Terror, the 2005 election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his 2009 reelection and Green Movement protests, Hassan Rouhani and the nuclear accord that Trump then tore up, the 2019 mass working-class protests, and the election (but really more coronation) of right-winger Ebrahim Raisi. We end with the death of Zhina Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police and the current mass protest movement that erupted in response.
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| 1:36.9 | Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jackabid Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, |
| 1:42.1 | and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:45.9 | This is the fifth and final episode of what started out as a four-part series, |
| 1:49.9 | and then became a five-part series on the history of modern Iran, with Eskender Sadiqi |
| 1:55.1 | Borajiri and Gulnar Nikpor. We begin this fifth and final episode in 1997, |
| 2:01.6 | with reformist cleric Muhammad Kautami's surprise landslide election to the presidency. |
| 2:07.7 | The reformists called for the liberalization of Iranian politics. By and large, |
| 2:13.5 | they were one-time insiders, former members of the Comenius to Left, who had been on the |
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