From Shah To Theocracy: An Iranian Activist’s Roadmap To Renewal - Dr Forough Amin
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The episode features an interview with Forough Amin discussing Iran's history, censorship, and the potential for renewal amidst political repression.
We speak with Forough Amin, founder of Iranian Women in New Zealand, about Iran’s contested past, the machinery of censorship, and why a renaissance is still possible. History, ideology, and free speech collide as we follow the path from the Shahs to the present regime and the fight for truth. • Pahlavi-era modernisation and White Revolution reforms • context for judging the Shah versus the theocracy • scale of executions and repression under the Islamic Republic • political Islam’s regional...
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