IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
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🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) decides who is to blame for the Iranian Hostage Crisis that lasted 444 days and left a stain on the presidency of former peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter. She is joined by actress Aimee Carrero, Fact-Checker Chris Smith and Producer Amanda Lund. Guest Expert Dr. Benjamin Radd (UCLA lecturer and expert on Government and Politics in the Middle East, particularly Iran) stops by to explain the Ayatollah Khomeini's role in the crisis and what the student protester's were demanding in the first place.
On the board this week: Jimmy Carter's Soft Heart, Oil, The Shah, The Students, Khomeini, Chase Bank, Paper Shredders and...Ben Affleck?
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| 0:20.0 | An Eri's Original. |
| 0:25.0 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:29.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation |
| 0:32.0 | into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 0:40.1 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 0:43.8 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest |
| 0:49.0 | disasters and find out who's to blame. |
| 0:55.0 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 0:58.0 | Not on my watch. |
| 0:59.0 | My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith, |
| 1:02.0 | and I am the Alarmist. |
| 1:05.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk |
| 1:14.3 | about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we'll be |
| 1:18.5 | discussing the Iranian hostage crisis. Here's what you need to know. In 1941, the Shah of |
| 1:27.4 | Iran Mohammed Raza-Palavi succeeded his father, Raza Khan at the age of 21. By 1951, the Prime Minister of Iran |
| 1:37.6 | was determined to nationalize the country's oil resources, a move that was |
| 1:42.1 | strongly opposed by the United States and Britain. |
| 1:45.4 | The Shah became embroiled in a power struggle with his Prime Minister, and in August of |
| 1:50.0 | 1953, a military coup staged by the CIA overthrew the Prime Minister and replaced |
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