#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
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Abbas Amanat is a historian at Yale specializing in the modern history of Iran. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00 ) – Introduction
(06:18 ) – Mahsa Amini protests in Iran
(24:35 ) – Propaganda
(42:13 ) – Iranian culture
(59:02 ) – Violent suppression of protests
(1:20:31 ) – Islamic Revolution
(1:38:14 ) – CIA in Iran
(1:54:30 ) – Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini
(2:25:26 ) – Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
(2:33:21 ) – Nuclear weapons
(2:41:38 ) – Israel
(2:56:18 ) – Putin
(3:03:50 ) – Future of Iran
United States
Many things left unsaid especially for a non Iranian audience even Iranians living abroad
Barbarian and cruel dictators will remain in power without foriegn intervention. period! Kim Jung NK Bashar Assad Syria Khamenei Iran Saddam Iraq : US overthrew him Gaddafi Lybia : Nato and France overthrew him
One of the slogans is "mijangim,mimirim Irano pas migirim" which means "we fight, we die we take Iran back"