Origins of Modern Iran
Warfare
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4.5 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
As protests continued across Iran last week, a number of Iranian-made kamikaze drones were fired by Russian forces at targets thousands of miles away in Kyiv, Ukraine.
It marks the first time that these Iranian weapons have been used against a European capital, as well as a new low for relations between Iran and the West - which were already under strain.
So how did we get here? In this episode, James is joined by Professor Ali Ansari of St Andrews University in Scotland to learn the historical context of modern Iran - from the Iranian Revolution to the nuclear deal torn up by former US President Donald Trump in 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | On Monday, October 17th, just last week, Iranian-made kamikaze drones were fired by Russia at the civilian |
| 0:07.2 | centers of Kiev in Ukraine. |
| 0:09.8 | Let that sink in for a moment. |
| 0:11.7 | This was the first time that these Iranian weapons had been used |
| 0:14.6 | against a European capital city and it marks a new low for Iranian relations with the West |
| 0:20.3 | and it's not like relations were going well anyway. |
| 0:23.2 | From the collapse of the Iran nuclear deal and the firing of missiles against U.S. bases, through |
| 0:28.1 | to the vicious crackdown on young Iranian protesters all around the country, it's safe to say that the hard-line |
| 0:34.1 | Iranian regime is not exactly painting itself in a good light. But how did we get |
| 0:39.2 | here to this new lowpoint in history? Well I'm your host James Rogers and here on the warfare podcast, we often take the |
| 0:46.2 | latest cutting edge issues in international security and war, and we provide the context |
| 0:51.1 | that we all need, that historical context, to understand what's going on and why. |
| 0:56.5 | To help us understand Iran, I've invited Professor Ali Ansari onto the podcast. |
| 1:01.6 | Now Ali is professor in modern history at St Andrews in Scotland and |
| 1:05.0 | he is the world-leaning expert on the making of modern Iran from the Iran-Iraq |
| 1:09.6 | war to the Iranian Revolution and beyond. So here is Ali Ansari on the making of modern Iran. |
| 1:16.7 | Enjoy. |
| 1:17.7 | Hi Ali, welcome to the Warfare Podcast. How you doing today? |
| 1:21.8 | I'm very well. Thank you and thank you for having me on. |
| 1:24.2 | Not a problem at all. |
| 1:25.6 | It's a good time, I guess, to have you on the podcast. |
| 1:28.4 | I say good time with a slightly sarcastic twinge because Iran is most certainly not in its most stable condition |
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