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Persia has always figured deeply in the European imagination, sometimes there's a threat or an opportunity,

from the ancient tribes including notorious warriors such as the Parthians down to the present-day Iranian revolution,

and Europeans and others have always meddled in Persia throughout history. In 1901, a British entrepreneur,

William Knox Darcy, obtained a lucrative concession from the Shah of Persia to exploit the

country's oil resources. These arrangements lasted until 1951, when the Iranian monarchy was

overthrown and the Mossadee government nationalized the oil. Two years later, the British

Secret Service and the American CIA conspired to overthrow Mossadei, reinstate the Shah, and

return to business more or less as usual. Then came the overthrow of the Shah, Muhammad

Reza Pahlavi, in February 1979 by Iranian revolutionaries who remain in power today.

That two-minute potted history helps us begin to understand why this great and beautiful

country has been fought over for millennia and is being fought over now with consequences

that may yet shake the world.

I'm Gavin Esler, and this is not a dream. Three very different factors are at the heart of the United States and Israeli attacks on Iran.

Iran's nuclear weapons program, Israel's fear that Iranian revolutionaries will one day drop a nuclear bomb on Israel,

and the unpredictability of U.S. President Donald Trump.

To talk us through this complex and very dangerous struggle, I'm joined by Dr. Bourgeois Ojallik,

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