#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons

Abbas Amanat is a historian at Yale specializing in the modern
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (06:18)
- Mahsa Amini protests in Iran (24:35) - Propaganda (42:13) -
Iranian culture (59:02) - Violent suppression of protests (1:20:31)
- Islamic Revolution (1:38:14) - CIA in Iran (1:54:30) - Supreme
Leader Ruhollah Khomeini (2:25:26) - Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
(2:33:21) - Nuclear weapons (2:41:38) - Israel (2:56:18) - Putin
(3:03:50) - Future of Iran