Welcome back to breaking history. In the last episode, we explored the prelude to Iran's Islamic

revolution in 1979, the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty. In this episode, we examined the life

of the cleric who helped lead that revolution. His name was Ayatollah Ruhola Khomeini, and he ended 2,500 years of Iranian monarchs from

his exile in a chateau on the outskirts of Paris.

He couldn't have done that without the consent and support of liberals and leftists at home

and abroad.

After the break, the first red-green alliance, and a reminder of how it works today.

Haye Poubal and back, La Bebel, the part you got this next year's model.

Lee Harvey-Arvian, Irving, Berlin.

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Cutting off military funding for a government that is starving two million people and advertising how they're ethnically cleansing the Palestinians seems like the least we can do.

Especially if we're going to head into a primary, like table stakes is going to be no more military for Israel.

So there will just will have to be a shift. And I do think that will mean putting far more pressure on Israel. And that's what I think Democrats want. By the way, that's what the country wants. And when you poll Israelis, they say they want a fucking ceasefire. Israelis want the hostages returned through a negotiated settlement. And by the way, that's the way in which the vast majority of hostage who were

returned were able to be returned. We just heard from the former Obama speechwriters on their

popular Pod Save America podcast making the case against the U.S. Israel alliance. No Democrat should

take APAC money, cut off the U.S. military aid. Israel, you see, is starving two million people,

and they're doing it deliberately. It's a moral stain on our republic that we enable this

horror. To paraphrase the Reverend Jeremiah Wright,

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