The History and Impact of Sanctions on Iran w/ Muhammad Sahimi [REMASTERED]
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
This remastered episode of Guerrilla History was a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this fascinating episode, we had a discussion with Professor Muhammad Sahimi on the history and the impacts of sanctions on Iran, which is both an immensely enlightening and heartbreaking conversation. This episode is particularly timely given the current situation in Iran. Be sure to also stay turned for our analysis on the situation in Iran, coming soon!
Muhammad Sahimi is a Professor at the University of Southern California, where he analyses Iran's political development, its nuclear program, and its foreign policy. From 2008 to 2012 he was the lead political analyst at Frontline/Tehran Bureau website.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, guerrilla history listeners, this is co-host Henry. |
| 0:04.9 | I know that last week at the beginning of the episode, I announced that this week we |
| 0:09.4 | would be releasing the first two episodes of Tsars and Commissars from Rushtamaran Russia, |
| 0:15.2 | the new show that I am co-hosting, on a history of Russia from pre-state foundation all |
| 0:20.7 | the way to the present in 25 parts this week. |
| 0:24.6 | However, as a result of the Zionist entity attacking Iran this morning, |
| 0:31.5 | Adnan and I decided that we should be really focusing on understanding what is happening in Iran at the present moment. |
| 0:39.8 | This is not a news program, so we are not going to be bringing you instant analysis of the breaking news. |
| 0:46.1 | Instead, we are going to analyze what is happening over the course of the next week |
| 0:50.6 | and bring you new material when we feel we have things that are |
| 0:55.1 | analytically strong and worth saying. With that being said, I have decided that we should |
| 1:01.2 | push back the release of some SARS and Commissars episodes to allow us to have space to |
| 1:08.0 | re-release a previous episode related to Iran on this channel. |
| 1:12.0 | This episode is a part of our Sanctions as War series. |
| 1:15.5 | It's titled The History and Impact of Sanctions on Iran with Muhammad Sahimi. |
| 1:21.0 | It was a great conversation, as were all of our conversations in the Sanctions as War series. |
| 1:26.6 | This episode came out about three years ago, |
| 1:30.3 | two and a half years ago, in any case, at this point. So I am well aware that many of you |
| 1:35.4 | new listeners will not have heard this episode. In any case, we do have a very important |
| 1:42.7 | conversation here and understanding the history and impact of |
| 1:49.2 | sanctions on Iran will help us understand not only those sanctions and the impacts of |
| 1:56.5 | those sanctions, but also will help us understand the current political and historical |
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