US Foreign Policy in the Middle East with Roy Casagranda

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Roy Casagranda gives us an overview of US foreign policy in the Middle East from 1953 to 2003.. We start off by talking about the 1953 Iranian coup d’état and then move into the Iranian Revolution. We go into the rise of Saddam Hussien and the Iran–Iraq War. After that, we start talking about the events that led into the Desert Storm and finish off the conversation talking about the Iraq War. Roy Casagranda is a political scientist, professor of government and resident Middle East expert at Austin Community College (ACC). His research lies with the intersection of politics, history, economics, psychology, and philosophy. He has been doing local new interviews since 2008 on conflicts in the Persian Gulf. Roy is the faculty advisor for the Austin School, a student club that hosts lecture series. ( Highly Recommended) Roys Website: https://www.sekhmetliminal.com The Austin School: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUGwVgtUewevtLvu7NaxVrw SUPPORT US – https://www.patreon.com/brohistory #56 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hey what's up guys, Henry from Bro history.
1:02.0	On today's show I have Roy Casa Grande on again
1:04.3	and we're gonna be talking Middle East history. We're focusing on Iraq and Iran so
1:10.8	we're gonna go from 1953 when the US overthrew the Iranian democracy to the Iraq
1:18.5	war in 2003. So it was an awesome conversation. Roy is amazing. He is so much insight on the Middle East and I think you guys are really going to enjoy this episode it turned out amazing
1:31.8	I always refer people to to your stuff to get a good holistic view of what's going on and so they can get a grasp of the contemporaries situation right now because I think most people just completely lack any grasp of
1:46.0	I guess a lot of people don't understand that a lot of our Middle Eastern policy is a consequence of a lot of our entanglements with the Soviet Union and the Cold War and just
1:57.9	how exactly the Middle East was set up in the first place.
2:01.2	And today I wanted to actually talk to you about I wanted to start off the conversation
2:06.5	by talking about Iran and why I think most people don't don't know this but the US overthrew the
2:17.7	Iranian democracy I believe in 1953 or 19 1953 and most people don't get don't know that and now that's a very key piece of
2:28.4	information that you're missing when you're pointing the finger and throwing Iran in the axis of evil that we once
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