So instead of following my beautiful Matthew around the online, today I'm following Ben Norton around. He's on this episode of the sensible socialist pod giving a modern History of Iran and it's real good so far.
Chapo fave Seamus Melakefzeli was supposed to be involved in a pod on the History of Iran but it seems stalled. https://iranandgoliath.podbean.com
The Biden admin will probably be ramping up the pressure on Iran so it's a good time to improve understanding of the History.
This is a great deep dive. 2 Hours deep. Touches on all kinds of connected regional historical and current events.
Most interesting new detail: The assasination of Solemani was possibly done to derail secret Iran - Saudi peace talks hosted by Pakistan. The US did not like being ignored.