Rules Of Engagement

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

After Iran shot down an American surveillance drone in June, tensions between the two countries have only gone up. But the US and Iran have been in some state of conflict for the last 40 years, since the Iranian revolution. This week, we look at three key moments in this conflict to better understand where it might go next.

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0:00.0	Decades of ideological divisions have often left Iran, isolated on the world stage.
0:11.0	Now frustrated and perceived as unpredictable.
0:14.7	Global hostilities are escalating.
0:16.7	Already difficult relationship between the US and Iran has become even more tense.
0:21.6	US President Donald Trump says to Iran quote,
0:23.7	better be careful, but Iran has a warning of its own.
0:28.9	Just days after President Trump announced that he'd called on military strikes on Iran
0:34.0	with only minutes to spare, he made a warning that Washington was not backing down.
0:38.7	Iran responded by breaching the limits placed on its nuclear activities.
0:43.2	Neither Iran nor any other hostile actor should mistake US prudence for weakness.
0:50.7	You're listening to Thru Line from NPR.
0:53.4	Where we go back in time.
0:55.3	To understand the present.
0:59.2	Hey, I'm Ron teen Arablui.
1:00.8	I'm Ron d'Avdhattah.
1:02.1	And on this episode, 40 years of US Iran hostility.
1:10.3	If you heard our episode last week, you know that the US and Iran first became
1:14.7	politically intertwined in 1953.
1:17.4	That's the year the US helped overthrow the Democratic Prime Minister of Iran,
1:21.2	Muhammad Musadil.
1:23.2	Now, fast forward 26 years to 1979.
1:27.2	The secular Shah the US put in place after the coup in 1953 was suddenly facing a major crisis.
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