A Conversation with John Ghazvinian

About this episode

Saman Askari interviews John Ghazvinian about US-Iran relations throughout history.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak with John Ghazvinian, an author, historian and a former journalist. He's considered a foremost expert on US-Iran relations and has written a comprehensive book about the subject. John and I start off by talking about his book and the relationship between the US and Iran, going all the way back to the 1720’s up until the current times. In the first half of the episode, we look at this interesting relationship in various phases and try to go beyo...

People in this episode

Host: Saman Askari

Guest: John Ghazvinian

Topics covered

• US-Iran relations
• history
• interview
• politics
• culture

Keywords

• US-Iran relations
• history
• John Ghazvinian
• politics
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: comprehensive book

Places: US, Iran

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