Iranian Revolution
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Sep 12, 2026
John PapolaHOST
We went into Iraq on the basis of this, weapons of mass destruction.
John PapolaHOST
This is Colin Powell at the UN making the case that this has to be dealt with because Saddam Hussein, who had been an ally of the United States, proximally in its fight with Iran, who was a stated enemy and has remained a stated enemy of the United States since the Islamic Revolution, that this was now an untenable situation to have supporters of terror have the potential for nuclear weapons.
John PapolaHOST
We are still living with this.
John PapolaHOST
We have a war in Iran as we speak.
Jim O'GradyHOST
Thinking Western, it prevented the agents from realizing that these men belonged to an international network of jihadists that had set out to attack their former patron, the United States, and it made it very hard to understand the Blind Sheikh's worldview.
Jim O'GradyHOST
The Sheikh had avidly watched when, in 1979, the Iranian Revolution toppled a U.S.-friendly government and replaced it with an Islamic regime.
Jim O'GradyHOST
This opened up stunning possibilities.
Jim O'GradyHOST
He now envisioned a wave of Islamic takeovers in the Middle East, starting with Egypt, which he would one day rule.
Leo PearlmanGUEST
Nevertheless, if one were to pick a particular moment in time, nineteen seventy-nine stands out as a pivotal year in the evolution of militant Islamism.
Leo PearlmanGUEST
The Iranian Revolution established an Islamist theocracy in Tehran that would ultimately export its revolutionary ideology and build a network of militant proxies across the Middle East, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and others.
Leo PearlmanGUEST
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan created the battlefield on which thousands of foreign Muslim fighters converged, among them Osama bin Laden, creating networks of fighters, financiers, and ideologues whose significance would extend far beyond Afghanistan.
Leo PearlmanGUEST
That same year, the seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by armed fundamentalists demonstrated the revolutionary potential of violent religious extremism within the Muslim world itself.
Jill WagnerHOST
So I'm gonna be reading The Lion Women of Tehran.
Jill WagnerHOST
Allie says it is a story about female friendship that spans decades before and after the Iranian Revolution.
Jill WagnerHOST
She says, "I couldn't put this one down." That's what I need in a book, something I absolutely cannot put down, because if I do put it down, I'll get distracted and I'll never finish it.
Jill WagnerHOST
Uh, Moshe, what are you eating?
Yaron BrookHOST
could see the pattern.
Yaron BrookHOST
1979, Islamists, part of the Iranian revolution, take the American embassy and start
Yaron BrookHOST
444 days of a
Yaron BrookHOST
hostage crisis.
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Yaron BrookHOST
just Salih.
Yaron BrookHOST
It
Yaron BrookHOST
is, of course, what really inspired the Muslims to, Sunnis and Shiites, to really delve into the Islamist ideology and dedicate their lives to fighting, to jihad, was indeed the success of the Iranian Revolution.
Yaron BrookHOST
Iran, this massive country with 90 million people and a long history, a long history of civilization, this massive country that had been secularized and turned to the West under the Shah, in 1979, became an Islamist country dedicated to Sharia, imposing totalitarianism on its own population.
Cliff MayHOST
But this is important to keep in mind, too.
Cliff MayHOST
79, you have the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Cliff MayHOST
The Saudis, I've talked to Saudis about this, or you have, they feel like people think that we're not good jihadis, that we're not good Muslims, that we're too friendly with the West.
Cliff MayHOST
We have to do something.
Adnan HusainHOST
The United States is full of people who Simply for, you know, this is what I also was concerned about is that there was very little here talking about the suppression of political rights in the United States, you know, and the increasing, you know, repression and political repression that's taking place.
Adnan HusainHOST
I would also say what I found really remarkable is no mention of the Iranian revolution.
Adnan HusainHOST
So you can talk about the 1953 coup because they're willing to defend possibly a secular nationalist government from the 1950s, but they are not willing to say that equally the people expressing sovereign will for regardless of the critiques that you might have about the eventual outcomes of the revolution, it was a popular revolution.
Adnan HusainHOST
In fact, it was more popular than the American Revolution in terms of participation by people in the total percentage.
PaddyPANELIST
It all comes back to Iran.
PaddyPANELIST
And it all comes back to the Islamic Revolution.
PaddyPANELIST
And it is finally being dealt with.
PaddyPANELIST
And I think this has a strong motivation for a lot of Americans.
Sevan MatossianHOST
you know, the kind that think women should be beaten in the streets for whatever bad things they've done, who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989.
Sevan MatossianHOST
He was the leader of the Iranian revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Pahlavi and transformed the country into an Islamic republic.
Sevan MatossianHOST
That means that they lived under Sharia law.
Sevan MatossianHOST
No Jews or Canadians allowed.
David O'CallaghanHOST
Ben McIntyre also does what Ben does and this week has Redwood, the untold story of the Cold War's most extraordinary spy, a non-fiction history book about a dude named Vladimir who was a high-ranking KGB double agent codenamed Redwood.
David O'CallaghanHOST
Set in 1981 during the Iranian Revolution, he turned to MI6 to expose deep KGB secrets in exchange for help hiding a personal and sexual secret that threatened his life.
David O'CallaghanHOST
And finally, two new releases in the kids and YA section.
David O'CallaghanHOST
It's been 20 years since a new Gruffalo tale, but the wait is now over as this week sees the release of Gruffalo Granny from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
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