The History and Impact of Sanctions on Iran w/ Muhammad Sahimi

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this fascinating episode, we have 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, which the last question of the interview addresses. Be sure to also stay turned for more installments of our Sanctions As War series!

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 E0*/Frontline/Tehran Bureau website.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.2	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:39.3	I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined, unfortunately only by one of my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein,
0:45.2	historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello,
0:49.5	Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing very well, and it's a great pleasure to be with you,
0:53.8	as always, Henry. Absolutely. Always great pleasure to be with you as always Henry.
0:55.6	Absolutely. Always a pleasure to see you as well. We're unfortunately not joined by our other
1:00.1	usual co-host, Brett O'Shea, who had a very positive development in his life recently. And so
1:05.9	we're giving him a little bit of time off. I won't get more specific than that because, you know,
1:10.4	personal things.
1:11.3	But just as everybody will probably know, we're very, very happy for breath and you should be
1:16.7	as well. So today we have an excellent guest and we're going to be recording on a really
1:23.0	excellent topic. We're joined by Professor Muhammad Sahimi, a professor at University of Southern California,
1:30.4	who analyzes Iran's political development, its nuclear program, and its foreign policy,
1:35.6	and has been writing on these topics for about 30 years. This episode is going to be a continuation
1:40.5	of our ongoing Sanctions as War series, which if you haven't listened to the previous installments of our sanctions as war series, which if you haven't listened to the
1:44.9	previous installments of our sanctions as war series, including the introductory episode
1:49.2	with Professors Emmanuel Ness and Stuart Davis as well as the case study on Yugoslavia
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