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The Dig: Iran, 1953-1979. From the Shah to Islamic Revolution

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Is There a Revolution in the Middle East?

He was spending a fortune on armaments one of the highest per you know per capita in the world and Iran I think at the time they really had like the fifth biggest army in the world. He would constantly obviously wear sort of military regalia and again this very much fits in with what we were saying before that he was leading into coups by radical nationalists throughout the Arab world. By 77 all of those links which would have allowed the monarchy to maybe manage crises are very much severed, says Oluth Emmy oh Tywell.

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