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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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
0:58 – Mahsa Amini protests in Iran
19:15 – Propaganda
36:54 – Iranian culture
53:43 – Violent suppression of protests
1:15:11 – Islamic Revolution
1:32:54 – CIA in Iran
1:49:10 – Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini
2:20:07 – Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
2:28:02 – Nuclear weapons
2:36:18 – Israel
2:50:58 – Putin
2:58:31 – Future of Iran
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