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An American Martyr in Persia | Glenn Loury & Reza Aslan | The Glenn Show
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Nov 10, 2023
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Support The Glenn Show at https://glennloury.substack.com Glenn Loury & Reza Aslan (UC-Riverside, An American Martyr in Persia). Recorded October 25, 2023.
- 0:00Persia at the turn of the twentieth century
- 6:43The contradictions of Woodrow Wilson
- 11:14Did Howard Baskerville escape the prejudices of his time?
- 16:39How Baskerville got involved in Persia’s democratic revolution
- 26:43How Tsar Nicholas II aided the counter-revolution
- 32:29The erasure of Baskerville in post-1979 Iran
- 36:31The theological origin of the Islamic Republic of Iran
- 45:01Reza: Ordinary Iranians actually love American culture
- 48:51The internal and external pressures on Iran
- 57:21The amorality of foreign policy
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