Ayatollah vs. Shah

We’ve reached the Iranian Revolution of 1979! The great showdown!
The watershed moment when the tensions which we’ve been
tracing—between reform and reaction, modernism and
tradition—erupted into sweeping rejection of the Western model of
modernity and its replacement with something apocalyptic, something
both ancient and strikingly new: a Shi’a Islamic Republic. It was
out with the Shah, in with the Ayatollah; and the consequences have
been without parallel—for the Middle East, and the world. Listen to
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