A Political History of Contemporary Iran
This is a fascinating history from an interesting and engaging speaker. Dr. Roy Casagranda explains the key events in shaping the current state of Iran over the last 125 years.
(Scott Ritter’s old job was to write down the serial numbers of the missiles! Too funny! Reagan and Ollie North and the Iran-Contra Scandal from a different perspective)
He lists some exceptional music at the end of the video.
During the 70s many popular songs in the western world were recorded by the Beatles which are still popular. “She loves you, yeah yeah yeah … ” and so on. Now listen to a song from the 70s sung by Marjan, مرجان The song is called “desert (of) my heart”… Read more »
Thank you, Amarynth – what a fascinating talk – and resource! There is some ray of hope in Casagranda’s observation that a large majority of people within Iran, in contrast to the diaspora, want a secular republic and not a monarchy and that Reza Pahlavi, the Crown Prince, although he… Read more »
i have difficulty with american duel citizens that refer to themselves as Persian. invariably i ask, why? yes, persia was an empire with a history worthy of great reverence. as an aside, & perhaps of no relevance, but i have yet to meet a person who identifies as iranian of… Read more »
Yes same for me I see this so often. Pining for the good old Shah days. I suppose its the old wealthy class who benefitted under that regime.