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Restless Nation | The Red-Green Alliance: The Making of Modern Iran (Part 2)

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In our last episode, we traced the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and the forces building toward Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

This week, we turn to the man who brought that monarchy to an end: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

From exile in a quiet French chateau, Khomeini launched a revolution that shattered 2,500 years of Persian monarchy. But he didn’t do it alone.

Liberals and leftists, both inside Iran and across the West, played a crucial role in legitimizing his cause, a dynamic that feels familiar today.

This is the story of the first Red-Green Alliance, a tactical partnership between Islamists and the progressive left, and the cost of that alliance once power changed hands.

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Producers

Poppy Damon & Adam Feldman.

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Manage episode 498585345 series 3638264
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In our last episode, we traced the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and the forces building toward Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

This week, we turn to the man who brought that monarchy to an end: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

From exile in a quiet French chateau, Khomeini launched a revolution that shattered 2,500 years of Persian monarchy. But he didn’t do it alone.

Liberals and leftists, both inside Iran and across the West, played a crucial role in legitimizing his cause, a dynamic that feels familiar today.

This is the story of the first Red-Green Alliance, a tactical partnership between Islamists and the progressive left, and the cost of that alliance once power changed hands.

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Producers

Poppy Damon & Adam Feldman.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  continue reading

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