The Soul of Iran

In this episode, we shift our focus to Iran. Nobody could have
known this at the time, but with hindsight we can see that at the
beginning of the Cold War, Iran had somehow become a whirlpool
swirling with all of the 20th century’s clashing ideological and
political forces. All the players are there: an autocratic monarch
in the old style; a newly formed Communist party conspiring
revolution; aristocratic Liberals demanding economic and
constitutional reform; Islamist terrorists; Big Oil; a declining
European empire; the Soviet Union reviving Tsarist geopolitics; and
America, the new superpower. These clashing interests and
ideologies would result in Operation Ajax, one of the most
notorious episodes from the Cold War. Listen to exclusive bonus
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