I set out intending to get through the events of the 1979 revolution, but as you'll hear it became clear about halfway through that, once again, I'd underestimated how much there was to cover. So instead I discuss the shah's efforts to eliminate politics altogether and Iranian intellectual currents of the 1960s and 1970s, and attempt to tie everything t…
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