Podcasts about ayatollah ruhollah khomeini

Bill and Behnam discuss the helicopter crash in northern Iran that killed multiple regime officials, chief among them Ebrahim Raisi who was President of the Islamic Republic and a top contender to be the next Supreme Leader. Was it an accident?Given the Islamic Republic's constitutional mandate that elections be held to replace Raisi, who might be the next president? What does the president even do? What will it mean for Iran's foreign and security policyThey also revisit Raisi's history in the regime or as Behnam calls it, “failing up.” From being the youngest hand-picked by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to head the infamous “death commission” and implement fatwas issued by the then-Supreme Leader to his days as a hanging judge and heading the judiciary, the “Butcher of Tehran” had a lot of blood on his hands.

Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show Episode: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He IsRelease date: 2024-04-26Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years trying to escape the shadow the fatwa cast on him, and for some time, he thought he succeeded. But in 2022, an assailant attacked him onstage at a speaking engagement in western New York and nearly killed him.“I think now I'll never be able to escape it. No matter what I've already written or may now write, I'll always be the guy who got knifed,” he writes in his new memoir, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.”In this conversation, I asked Rushdie to reflect on his desire to escape the fatwa; the gap between the reputation of his novels and their actual merits; how his “shadow selves” became more real to millions than he was; how many of us in the internet age also have to contend with our many shadow selves; what Rushdie lives for now; and more.Mentioned:Midnight's Children by Salman RushdieBook Recommendations:Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith GrossmanOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Castle by Franz KafkaThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin and Aman Sahota. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Sonia Herrero and Mrinalini Chakravorty.

Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show Episode: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He IsRelease date: 2024-04-26Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years trying to escape the shadow the fatwa cast on him, and for some time, he thought he succeeded. But in 2022, an assailant attacked him onstage at a speaking engagement in western New York and nearly killed him.“I think now I'll never be able to escape it. No matter what I've already written or may now write, I'll always be the guy who got knifed,” he writes in his new memoir, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.”In this conversation, I asked Rushdie to reflect on his desire to escape the fatwa; the gap between the reputation of his novels and their actual merits; how his “shadow selves” became more real to millions than he was; how many of us in the internet age also have to contend with our many shadow selves; what Rushdie lives for now; and more.Mentioned:Midnight's Children by Salman RushdieBook Recommendations:Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith GrossmanOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Castle by Franz KafkaThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin and Aman Sahota. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Sonia Herrero and Mrinalini Chakravorty.

Salman Rushdie's 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years trying to escape the shadow the fatwa cast on him, and for some time, he thought he succeeded. But in 2022, an assailant attacked him onstage at a speaking engagement in western New York and nearly killed him.“I think now I'll never be able to escape it. No matter what I've already written or may now write, I'll always be the guy who got knifed,” he writes in his new memoir, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.”In this conversation, I asked Rushdie to reflect on his desire to escape the fatwa; the gap between the reputation of his novels and their actual merits; how his “shadow selves” became more real to millions than he was; how many of us in the internet age also have to contend with our many shadow selves; what Rushdie lives for now; and more.Mentioned:Midnight's Children by Salman RushdieBook Recommendations:Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith GrossmanOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Trial by Franz KafkaThe Castle by Franz KafkaThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Rollin Hu, Kristin Lin and Aman Sahota. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Sonia Herrero and Mrinalini Chakravorty.

Isaiah 41:10 Fear not for I am with you; be not dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.Tehran, Iran – Iran says it has shot down three quadcopters launched inside its territory and news reports say there have been explosions at some military sites in Syria – taken as indications that Israel has responded to Iran's missile and drone attacks on its soil last week.Iran is about seventy-five times larger than the Jewish state; its population is nearly ten times larger. The two countries are more than a thousand miles apart. Israel has no intention of occupying Iranian land or subjugating its people.Why, then, is Iran at war with Israel?And why is this question so significant for America and the global future?BUILDING AN “AXIS OF RESISTANCE”There was a time when Iran and Israel were not enemies but allies. When Israel declared its independence in 1948, Iran was one of the first Muslim countries to recognize the new state. However, when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ousted Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in the 1979 Islamic revolution, he severed all diplomatic and commercial ties with Israel.How close is Iran to having nuclear weapons?We are currently experiencing an Exponential increase in AI technology.It is staggering. AI now seems to be evolving at an alarming rate. Some believe that humanoid robots will soon have the potential to lead with a greater level of efficiency than human leaders.

“What's past is prologue,” Shakespeare informed us. But what if the past is misunderstood? Or misrepresented? What if policy makers are making policies based on false historical narratives?In 1979, host Cliff May went to Iran to report on the revolution that was then underway. Cliff admits that he didn't know much about the country. But neither did most of his colleagues, reporters from around the world who had parachuted in to cover this big story. He was working on a documentary for PBS which had arranged for him to partner with an Iranian producer.  So, at least the producer was knowledgeable, right? Well, yes and no.He was gung-ho for the revolution and an ardent admirer of its leader: the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In other words, he was not a truth-seeking journalist but an enthusiastic propagandist. So, this turned out to be a challenging assignment for Cliff.All these many years later, Ray Takeyh – the Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations – is trying to understand and reveal the truth about modern Iranian history.He's well suited to the task: He holds a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University and has served as a senior advisor on Iran at the State Department. He joins Cliff for today's discussion. Also joining: Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, currently a resident scholar at FDD.

“What's past is prologue,” Shakespeare informed us. But what if the past is misunderstood? Or misrepresented? What if policy makers are making policies based on false historical narratives?In 1979, host Cliff May went to Iran to report on the revolution that was then underway. Cliff admits that he didn't know much about the country. But neither did most of his colleagues, reporters from around the world who had parachuted in to cover this big story. He was working on a documentary for PBS which had arranged for him to partner with an Iranian producer.  So, at least the producer was knowledgeable, right? Well, yes and no.He was gung-ho for the revolution and an ardent admirer of its leader: the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In other words, he was not a truth-seeking journalist but an enthusiastic propagandist. So, this turned out to be a challenging assignment for Cliff.All these many years later, Ray Takeyh – the Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations – is trying to understand and reveal the truth about modern Iranian history.He's well suited to the task: He holds a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University and has served as a senior advisor on Iran at the State Department. He joins Cliff for today's discussion. Also joining: Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, currently a resident scholar at FDD.

In the second episode of the long saga that would be the Iranian hostage crisis, we watch as Jimmy Carter attempts to take action into his own hands.  Carter orders a rescue attempt of the hostages in Iran, Operation Eagle Claw.  An operation run by an Horry County Native named General James Vaught. Operation Eagle Claw would be an operation in which it can be described best as "if it can go wrong it will" type of a military operation.  It was described on Wikipedia here:"The operation, one of Delta Force's first,[2] encountered many obstacles and failures and was subsequently aborted. Eight helicopters were sent to the first staging area called Desert One, but only five arrived in operational condition.[3] One had encountered hydraulic problems, another was caught in a sand storm, and the third showed signs of a cracked rotor blade. During the operational planning, it was decided that the mission would be aborted if fewer than six helicopters remained operational upon arrival at the Desert One site, despite only four being absolutely necessary.[3] In a move that is still discussed in military circles, the field commanders advised President Carter to abort the mission, which he did.[4]As the U.S. forces prepared to withdraw from Desert One, one of the remaining helicopters crashed into a transport aircraft that contained both servicemen and jet fuel. The resulting fire destroyed both aircraft and killed eight servicemen.[3]In the context of the Iranian Revolution, Iran's new leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, stated that the mission had been stopped by an act of God ("angels of God") who had foiled the U.S. mission in order to protect Iran and his new Islamist government. "It helped seal Jimmy Carter's electoral fate, and the hostage crisis continued for 9 more grueling months......   Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

It's Monday, December 19th, A.D. 2022. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. By Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com) Iranian protestors set fire to the late Ayatollah Khomeini's home On November 17th, Iranian protesters set fire to the childhood home of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's Islamic Republic's founder, reported International Christian Concern. This serves as a symbol of the protester's resistance to the Islamic republic itself. The home has been a museum for the past 30 years since Khomeini's death in 1989, and yet officials in Iran deny the fire even occurred altogether despite video evidence of the event. Hundreds of protestors have died since the death of a woman in September who was detained by police for allegedly breaking the regime's strict dress code. Christians in Iran have been suppressed, imprisoned, tortured, and killed while under the radical Islamic Regime in Iran. International Christian Concern dubbed Ali Khamenei, the Persecutor of the Year.  Ex-trans Navy SEAL: Trans craze is “killing these kids" A former member of SEAL Team Six who famously presented himself as a woman a decade ago, and who has since “detransitioned,” is speaking out about the dangers of transgender ideology, manipulation by its proponents, and the grave harm it is doing to children and young people, reports LifeSiteNews.com. Chris Beck, who for a time was known as “Kristen,” recounted, in a wide-ranging two-hour interview with conservative commentator Robby Starbuck, how he was used by medical experts and the media to advance the narrative that only “gender-affirming” treatments are valid for persons, including young kids, who display even the most minute sign of gender dysphoria. Beck described those who embrace and promote transgender ideology as a “cult” that brings people into the fold through “love bombing” and propagandizing. Genesis 1:27 says, “So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.” Christian teacher forced to resign over fake pronouns A Christian teacher who was forced to resign for declining to use the fake names of trans-identifying students is suing the school district, claiming it violated her free speech and religious liberty rights under the U.S. Constitution, reports Christian Headlines. Vivian Geraghty served as an English teacher at Jackson Memorial Middle School in Massillon, Ohio, until two students on August 26 of this year asked her to begin using new names that aligned with their new fake gender identities, according to the lawsuit. One of the students also asked Geraghty to use incorrect pronouns. She told school administrators that her Christian faith prohibited her from “lying” to the students about who they are. She was willing to use the student's last names. The Christian English teacher told her school principal of her concerns at 9:30 a.m. on August 26. School administrators allegedly told Geraghty she “would be required to put her beliefs aside as a public servant.” By 11:30 a.m., she had been forced to resign and had been escorted out of the building. Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing the teacher, said, “The Constitution protects this freedom to differ, in part, by prohibiting the government from adopting and enforcing a set of approved views on these matters in America's public schools. The very nature of free speech, free exercise of religion, and freedom from state-enforced orthodoxy on fundamental matters condemns the state's attempt to purge contrary views from its schools.” Doctor sues New Mexico over physician-assisted suicide law A doctor and a Christian medical group have filed a lawsuit against New Mexico over an assisted suicide law passed last year they say violates their sincerely-held Biblical objections to the controversial practice, reports The Christian Post. Dr. Mark Lacy and the Christian Medical & Dental Association filed a lawsuit against New Mexico last Wednesday in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Defendants named in the suit include the state's Attorney General Hector Balderas, Department of Health Acting Secretary Dr. David Scrase, and members of the state Medical Board. At issue was the Elizabeth Whitefield End-of-Life Options Act, a law passed last year that legalized assisted suicide for terminally ill residents of New Mexico. The lawsuit argues that the law does not adequately protect the conscientious objection rights of medical professionals opposed to participating in the killing of patients before natural death. It adds that the Act “compels objecting physicians to speak and inform terminally ill patients about the availability of assisted suicide.” Close And that's The Worldview in 5 Minutes on this Monday, December 19th, in the year of our Lord 2022. Subscribe by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ. Extra Print Story Vatican dismisses Father Frank Pavone from priesthood Father Frank Pavone, a well-known pro-life activist and national director of Priests for Life, has been dismissed from the clerical state for “blasphemous communications on social media” and “persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop.” In a Twitter post in 2020, Pavone spoke of "supporters of this loser Biden and his morally corrupt, America-hating, God-hating Democrat party.”  One of the adjectives to define Biden, which The Worldview deleted, was blasphemous. In a Dec. 13 letter to U.S. bishops obtained by the Catholic News Agency and confirmed by multiple sources as authentic, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, wrote that the decision on November 9 had “no possibility of appeal.” In one statement, the Vatican said, “Father Pavone was given ample opportunity to defend himself in the canonical proceedings, and he was also given multiple opportunities to submit himself to the authority of his diocesan bishop. It was determined that Father Pavone had no reasonable justification for his actions.” On Saturday, Pavone tweeted, “So, in every profession, including the priesthood, if you defend the unborn, you will be treated like them! The only difference is that when we are ‘aborted,' we continue to speak, loud and clear.” Proverbs 31:8 declares, “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.”

Trending Middle East brings you the latest social media and search trends from the region and around the world.   On today's episode, the World Cup is now under way in Qatar, with the hosts losing 2-0 to Ecuador in the opening game.   Max Verstappen won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in spectacular fashion, battling to lead from the moment the lights turned green and taking the honours for the third year running.   Protests in Iran show no sign of abating, after demonstrators set fire to the ancestral home of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the architect of the country's 1979 revolution.   Donald Trump's Twitter account was reinstated after a majority of respondents in a poll run by Elon Musk said they wanted him unbanned.

On August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was scheduled to give an author talk at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York. During his introduction, Rushdie was attacked onstage and stabbed multiple times, including in the eye, hand and chest. The surprising attack drew the spotlight back onto Rushdie, whose novel The Satanic Verses caused Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwā in 1989 that called for the death of Rushdie. This story has been covered by all of the major news outlets, but the news doesn't inspect the reason we all know Salman Rushdie in the first place: his writing. In this episode, we're looking at Salman Rushdie's works and their relationship to the greater world of magical realism, a genre that every reader has encountered, often without knowing it. Though we've touched on magical realism during previous episodes of Booklovers, we're more deeply inspecting the genre, its historical context, and the way readers expect to encounter it. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson's role in Hobbs and Shaw is also discussed, primarily by Jess and Carmanita, as a modern day iteration of John Henry. Mr. The Rock, if you're listening…

Ken welcomes back Pastor Suzie Lind from Brentwood, Tennessee for her second appearance on the podcast. Suzie is a teaching pastor at Journey Church where she and her co-pastors are asking big questions about politics, race, religious freedom, and the unwelcome trend toward Christian nationalism. When she appeared with Mike Erre on his podcast, Voxology, she told the story of her family's connection to Iran. Suzie was born in Tehran under the rule of the Pahlavi dynasty under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who had worked to "westernize" and modernize the nation. Just before the revolution that overturned his reign in 1979 and reversed his policies under the rigid rule of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, her family fled the country for London and then the United States, leaving a large extended family. Just weeks ago, Mahsa Amini was arrested, beaten, and killed by "morality police" on the streets of Tehran for failure to dress properly. Her story has sparked enormous rage and protests all over the country resulting in arrests and confinement in "re-education camps." For Pastor Suzie, it's personal. It's family. It has triggered introspection and activism as she rethinks her own identity as a Jesus follower with family roots in this Islamic nation. The dangers of morality police and "re-education camps" hit home here in our own country. Ken and Suzie unpack the events and the implications for us today. Suzie Lind is co-host of the podcast Journey Now. SHOW NOTESBecome a Patron: www.patreon.comSupport the show

*Note: I make an error in stating that there are 10,000 Jews that whittle down to 9,000. The actual number is 100,000 (not 10,000).* A concise, foundational history of Iran from 1950s through the 1979/1980 Revolution. How did Iran change under the rule of Mohammed Reza Shah? Who is Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and how did he change Iran? What happened during the Revolution in Iran in 1978 to 1979, and how did Iran become an Islamic Republic? How did this change the lives of Iranians? What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis and how did it end? We will learn the answers to these questions and more in this episode. Sources used in the making of this episode: Source ListSpecial thanks to my research assistant, Rachel Cox, for her incredible work on these episodes. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wiserworldpodcast/Website (sign up for email newsletter): https://wiserworldpodcast.com/To join the email list, click on the website link, and it will take you there.Song credit: "Heart of Indonesia" by mjmusics 

“Woman, life, freedom”Iran has been under a brutal religious dictatorship since 1979 with the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the establishment of the Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. There has long been a desire in Iran to return to the days before sharia law. Now, this might be their best chance yet.With the tragic murder of Mahsa Jina Amini. On September 13th, ‘22, Mahsa, a 22 year old Iranian woman, was arrested by the Iranian morality police for the crime of “bad hijab”. Her hair shown in public. For this she was arrested, taken to prison, viciously beaten. She succumbed to her injuries within a few days. Since then, there has been a massive upswell of protesting, rioting and fighting back against the government and its inhumane treatment of the Iranian People. Women refusing to wear their hijabs in public and dancing in the streets in defiance of the brutal regime. Today's guest Kamin Mohammadi helps us understand the context of all of these events and shares with us her lifelong struggles of living in exile, what these protests could mean for the future of Iran and why the worldwide media is not paying attention to such an important movement.Kamin Mohammadi is an author, journalist, broadcaster, editor and public speaker. Born in Iran, she and her family moved to the UK during the 1979 revolution. She has written for the British and international press including The Times, the Financial Times, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Condé Nast Traveller (UK and Italy), Psychologies, Donna Moderna (Italy), Men's Health, The Sunday Times (UK), The Sunday Times of India, The Mail on Sunday, Virginia Quarterly Review and the Guardian as well as co-authoring The Lonely Planet Guide to Iran and numerous other travel guide books. Her journalism has been nominated for an Amnesty Human Rights in Journalism award in the UK, and for a National Magazine Award by the American Society of Magazine Editors in the US.An avid commentator, she has appeared on BBC Radio Four's WOMAN'S HOUR, MIDWEEK, FOUR THOUGHT and THE WORLD TONIGHT, BBC World Service's OUTLOOK and THE WORLD TODAY WEEKEND, Channel Four Radio's THE MORNING REPORT, Monocle Radio's MONOCLE 24 and India's NDTV. She has appeared in the BBC TV documentary Iranian Enough? and written and co-presented the BBC World Service's three-part radio documentary Children of The Revolution. She was a major contributor to the BBC Radio Four series Escape from Tehran. She is now a regular presenter of BBC R4's FOUR THOUGHT. YOu can find more about Kamin and her work on her website kamin.co.uk and on twitter @kaminmohammadi.Like and subscribe to us on Youtube for more fun and exclusive content!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuM080VqVCe0gAns9V9WK9wSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/00gCjGhq8qrAEkraZnMwGR?go=1&sp_cid=ce203d55369588581151ec13011b84ac&utm_source=embed_player_pGoogle Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/u/1/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmlrc21pbmQuY29tL2xpc3Rlbj9mb3JtYXQ9cnNz?Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/riks-mind-podcast/id1460215365Show Notes:Kamin Mohammadi | Official Website@kaminmohammadi | TwitterWhy Iran's female-led revolt fills me with hope by Kamin Mohammadi | The Guardian'Woman, life, freedom': The origins of Iran's rallying cry | Le MondeRevolution and me | The GuardianKurdish People | Encyclopedia BritannicaWhat's in a name: Kurdish martyr Jîna Amini and the struggle for culture and history | SalonHistoric Ethnicities of Kurdistan | The Kurdish Project‘They tried to wipe us out': Kurds shelled as Iran seeks scapegoats for unrest | The GuardianIran Executes Wrestler Accused of Murder After He Took Part in 2018 Protests | The New York TimesIran Suddenly Executes Wrestler Navid Afkari, Authorities Fail to Notify Lawyer, Family | Human Rights WatchOil in Iran between the Two World Wars | Iran Chamber SocietyBarred From U.S. Under Trump, Muslims Exult in Biden's Open Door | The New York TimesThe Famine the World Forgot - WW2 Special | YoutubeAll the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer | AmazonHow The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days | NPRKey Events in the 1953 Coup | The New York TimesThe Iran Job (2012) | IMDbIran footballers show solidarity with protests over Mahsa Amini's death | The GuardianFemale athlete represents Iran without hijab at overseas climbing competition | ABC NewsIran prison fire death toll grows as some EU states call for sanctions | ReutersThe Cypress Tree | Amazon

Nothing is better than sex between two people who love and trust each other deeply, yet our culture tries to sell marital sex as “boring” and one-night stands to be “liberating”. So, in Episode No. 34 of Miss Understood, we talk about sex, baby (In the confines of marriage, of course) following Full House star's recent interview with Mayim Bialik for her “Breakdown' podcast, where she defined sex in marriage as a “gift from God” that should be celebrated. We also list some of the dating advice divorce lawyers have for couples and try to define if going to a strip club, getting a lap dance, and dirty dancing with someone of the opposite sex should be considered adultery. We may disagree on a few of these, but some indecent acts are a hard "NO" in a monogamous relationship. Plus, revolutionaries are speaking out against the inhumane treatment of women in Iran. So, we address the growing momentum of the Hijab protests, providing some historical context by looking back on the 1979 revolution when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized control of the government and forced the nation under fundamentalist Islamic rule. We also debate Euthanasia laws in Canada and question the ethics of being able to get medically assisted suicide and the slippery slope it can create. Of course, Hollywood can't stop romanticizing murderers, and Netflix's latest show, The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, seems to have done just that, so naturally, we add our two cents to the conversation. We argue that the glamourization of serial killers creates more of them, and sympathizing with their troubled upbringings is disrespectful to victims of their crimes. And to round out the episode, we end on a lighter note by talking about Russia and the thousands of men fleeing the country to avoid conscription for a war they morally oppose.

Happy Humpday F.A.B. Fam!! Speaking of hump day, your F.A.B. hosts are reviewing the 2018 documentary "Sex and Love Around the World" by Christine Amanpour. Christine travels around the world (Tokyo, Delhi, Beirut, Berlin, and Accra (Ghana) to talk to women about the rules of engagement in relationships and intimacy. It's a six part documentary directed by women. The topics cover everything from the idea of modern love to roles men and women play in sex, love, marriage family and even divorce. Tune in for a conversation on some of the hottest topics on the planet since the beginning of time! Cheers!! Warning: Adult Content & Language, please be advised this show is for adults 18 and up and the open minded. No disrespect to any culture or religion is intended. We are privileged, especially as women, to have the ability to partake in honest conversation which sometimes contain controversial topics & views. Please understand it is all love. "It the only thing there's just to little of!!" **Dedication: To our listeners who keep us going, to the human spirit and wordle & of course nerds. Please be on the lookout for our Patreon...your support will help us upgrade our audio visual content. About the Series: :https://youtu.be/NknJursyfOg About the Author:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Amanpour Show Notes: _ *Delhi: *When the British saw hijra for the first time they were not feeling it and passed the Tribal Act: Their status came down with Colonization by the British empire (https://www.himalmag.com/long-history-criminalising-hijras-india-jessica-hinchy-2019/) khajuraho sculptures: https://www.indianeagle.com/travelbeats/khajuraho-temple-history-and-art/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KhajurahoGroupofMonuments Beirut: Muslim erotic text from the 1500's: The perfumed garden of Sexual delight: book starts with an orgasm between man and woman in front of God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThePerfumedGarden *Voudon: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Vodou https://www.livescience.com/40803-voodoo-facts.html African traditional religions /ATR: https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/african-traditional-religions *Big mouth 'Life is a big fat mess" song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZBninmxjrU *Malala Yousafzai: Activist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai *72 virgins or raisins? Do your own research on this topic, but here is what we found online: https://globalnation.inquirer.net/163694/raisins-not-virgins-quran-scholars-say https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/islamic-scholar-punctures-72-virgins-theory-says-martyrs-will-only-get-raisins-in-heaven-340579.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTIZezQEZcQ *Stranger than Fiction: *BBC: Sir Salman Rushdie published his famous and controversial novel The Satanic Verses in 1988, sparking outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous.The book's release prompted the Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa calling for the writer's death in 1989. Mr Matar told the New York Post he had only read "a couple of pages" of the book and did not say whether the fatwa had inspired him. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62588666 Please email thefabpodcast@gmail.com with your book suggestions and "Stranger Than Fiction" stories so we can share them on the show!! Please reach out and let us how we are doing!! You can find us online by clicking our Link tree https://linktr.ee/Fabpod Don't forget to follow, rate, review, and SHARE our podcast! Thank you!

Hadi Matar was charged with attacking and stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York on August 12, 2022.Salman has lived under the threat of death and attack ever since 1989 when the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwah and a €3,000,000 bounty. The fatwah was issued because Salman wrote a novel called 'The Satanic Verses' which had a passage that satirised the Quran. All of this is because of that little offense, and offense that should have rolled of the backs of those offended.Salman writes in his memoirs of the fatwah, titled Joseph Anton, his life, his career, who he is, his controversies, and as well of course, what it is like to live in captivity. 

Salman Rushdie has been stabbed at a New York lecture and could lose sight in one eye. The motivation behind the attack may be more than 30 years old. In 1989 the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned Rushdie to death via Fatwah due to the ‘blasphemous' nature of his book: The Satanic Verses.   We're joined by Vijay Mishra, Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University in Perth to look into why Rushdie is so controversial among those of the Muslim faith.  What was it about the Satanic Verses that made it so controversial, and why has Salman Rushdie been under a Fatwah since 1989? Today's Headlines: - Legal advice on Scomo's secret appointments issued- Australia's skills crisis- Putin advisor's daughter killed in car bomb- Union calls Qantas ‘apology' a stunt- Singapore legalises gay sex Follow The Briefing: Instagram: @thebriefingpodcast Facebook: TheBriefingNewsAUTwitter: @TheBriefingAU See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The British-Indian writer who has faced death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, was stabbed on Friday while on stage at an event in New York state. In 1989, Iran's then leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, that has remained ever since, calling for Sir Salman's death. On the Sky News Daily with Chloe Culpan, Sky's correspondent in the US, David Blevins, reports from outside the hospital where Sir Salman is being treated, and US foreign affairs analyst Robin Wright examines what the attack means for US and UK relations with Iran. Producer: Soila Apparicio Interviews producer: Alys Bowen Podcast promotions producer: David Chipakupaku Editor: Philly Beaumont

Dr Keith Suter, Managing Director of the Global Directions Think Tank, about the attack on Salman Rushdie in front of an audience of 2,500 at a western New York literary event. In 1989, Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of Indian-born novelist Rushdie for authoring the book ‘The Satanic Verses', which was viewed as blasphemous by many Muslims.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the subject of controversy, provoking protests from Muslims. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwa calling for his assassination issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, in 1989. The British government put Rushdie under police protection. In 1983, Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in 1999. In 2007, he was knighted for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States. He was named Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University in 2015. Earlier, he taught at Emory University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he published Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the controversy over The Satanic Verses. On 12 August 2022, Rushdie was attacked during a speech in Chautauqua, New York. A man rushed onto the stage and stabbed Rushdie several times just before the author was scheduled to deliver a lecture. The suspect arrested was named as Hadi Matar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie

Revolutionen i Iran 1979 blev en vändpunkt i Mellanösterns historia. Den islamiska revolutionen skapade svallvågor som sveper genom regionen än idag. Hör om miliser och maktkamp i revolutionens spår. 1979 var ett år av dramatiska händelser, dels den islamiska revolutionen i Iran, men också Sovjetunionens invasion av Afghanistan och ockupationen av den stora moskén i Mecka i Saudiarabien. Dessa händelser fick enorma geopolitiska konsekvenser för hela Mellanöstern. I Iran tog ett shiitiskt prästerskap över styret och störtade shahen som styrt landet tidigare. Hör Agneta Ramberg som var på plats vid gisslandramat vid den amerikanska ambassaden i Iran 1979 och som intervjuade den högste religiöse ledaren Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini som då tog makten i Iran.Effekterna av revolutionen i IranIdag är shiamuslimska Iran en av de regionala stormakterna i Mellanöstern och tävlar om inflytandet med ärkerivalen sunnimuslimska Saudiarabien. Genom shiamuslimska väpnade miliser har Iran fört krig genom ombud i Syrien, Irak, Libanon och Jemen. Väpnade grupper som libanesiska Hizbollah har tränats av det iranska revolutionsgardet och driver ett aktivt motstånd mot Israel. I Jemen har huthirebellerna också stöd av Iran och i Irak har shiamiliser varit avgörande i striderna mot terrorgruppen IS. Hör hur Irans tentakler sprider sig över Mellanöstern och hur arvet från revolutionen 1979 lever än idag.Medverkande: Agneta Ramberg, tidigare utrikeskommentator och Mellanösternkorrespondent, Cecilia Uddén och Johan Mathias Sommarström, MellanösternkorrespondenterProgramledare: Olle WibergIntroduktion: Johar BendjelloulProducent: Katja MagnussonTekniker: Johanna Carell

In this edition of The GRID, hosts Chris Kuhlmann and Shaun Griffin explore the strategy of the left to consider words as violence in order to justify a violent response. A citizen says something they disagree with, and they then label the statement as violent speech. This justifies either a violent physical response or a legal response where they demand punishment and legal action for violent statement.   CREDITS Hosts: Chris Kuhlmann and Shaun Griffin Written by: Chris Kuhlmann Produced by: Shaun Griffin Music composed by JD Kuhlmann Art: Shaun Griffin Sound: Chris Kuhlmann and Shaun Griffin Sponsor: Forever 17 www.Forever17.com   Questions? Drop us a line at admin@kingdompatriot.us Visit us at www.kingdompatriot.us and check out our Vision Video “It's time for violence. That and more, today, on the Grid.” Sometimes I bait our audience with our approach. Today, let's get started by listening to this clip from Laverne Cox. Laverne Cox was born a male in 1972 and later became a transgender woman, meaning he/she identifies as a female even though born male. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_cI-7_Phog This is clip is 8 years old, but because it's significance is now gaining significant momentum, I thought it was particularly relevant to today.   Let's shift to an actual article from bigthink.com I'm going to read several sentences from this article to get your reaction.   Read Article https://bigthink.com/thinking/is-speech-violence/     In 1989, the novelist Salman Rushdie went into hiding. The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had issued a fatwā calling on “all valiant Muslims wherever they may be in the world” to kill the writer without delay, for which the assassin would receive a bounty of $1 million.     Rushdie's offense was writing a novel. Called the Satanic Verses, the story depicted the prophet Muhammad (and his wives) in ways that incensed parts of the Muslim community and turned the author into the world's most infamous heretic. As the story circulated through international media, Western intellectuals often offered muddled responses.     Of course it was wrong for Khomeini to call for the murder of a novelist who had merely written a book, most agreed. But few liberal-minded commentators seemed eager to say Rushdie was entirely without fault. The Indian-born writer had, after all, deeply offended the religious beliefs of millions of Muslims, in nations where values like piety and respect for authority had long been deemed more important than free expression….       When speech causes emotional or mental pain, the offended parties are morally entitled to nothing in the form of compensation from or punishment for the offender.     There is, to put it baldly, no right not to be offended. To be sure, that doesn't mean that deliberately offending people for its own sake is morally acceptable, or that people should be entitled to use speech to incite violence, harass, or threaten. Rather, it means that the impulse to punish people who offend is a regressive urge, one that necessarily chips away at intellectual freedom, even if the punishers do not wield legal authority. Rauch outlined the reasoning: “If [the offenders] cannot be put in jail, then they should lose their jobs, be subjected to organized campaigns of vilification, be made to apologize, be pressed to recant. If government cannot do the punishing, then private institutions and pressure groups — thought vigilantes, in effect — should do it.”       ... In Kindly Inquisitors, Rauch described a problem that every society in human history has faced: How do groups of people best decide who is right? Every person, after all, is fallible, biased, and can only know so much. To answer the question, societies have followed a variety of principles that have helped them reach consensus and produce knowledge…       … Three decades after the Rushdie affair, you do not need to look far for examples of offended people claiming to have been harmed by words. But the only thing new about this phenomenon is the volume. The Roman Catholic Church considered the idea of heliocentricity to be harmful in the 16th century; the same with evolution three centuries later. In the 1940s and 1950s, the Second Red Scare deemed pro-communist writing and speech to be so dangerous to the point of treason…. Whenever speech or ideas are categorized as violence, akin to physical assault, an inevitable conclusion emerges: something must be done…        …“[A]sking people to maintain peaceful dialogue with those who legitimately do not think their lives matter is a violent act,” read one op-ed published in The Daily Californian…       … In her opinion piece, Barrett raised valid points about how speech and ideas can cause damaging stress. But ultimately, the so-called “scientific” policy of categorizing speech as violence yields the same prescription proffered by so many people before her: something must be done.     “[W]e must also halt speech that bullies and torments,” she concluded. “From the perspective of our brain cells, the latter is literally a form of violence…”       … But classifying speech as violence and treating it as such pretends as if the harms caused by words and physical actions are equivalent, despite fundamental differences between the two that even children understand. The classification demands that offenders be punished, leaving people with two options: speak in ways that hurt people with words or in ways that don't…       …“When we do become offended, as we all will, we must settle for responding with criticism or contempt, and stop short of demanding that the offender be punished or required to make restitution,” Rauch wrote. “If you are unwilling to shoulder that obligation, if you insist on punishing people who say or believe ‘hurtful' things (as opposed to telling them why they are wrong, or just ignoring them) then you cannot fairly expect to share in the peace, freedom, and problem-solving success that liberal science is uniquely able to provide; indeed, you are putting those very benefits at risk….”   Let's listen to this video clip from John Stossel. Play clip:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=metw9-cdf3U Now we turn our attention to this brief clip from the Lance Walnau Show Play clip:  https://youtu.be/ttOUffbNM0A   So what are we supposed to do? If our very words, even as benign as they seem quote unquote are “violence” what are we supposed to do? First, I think we can't define violence the way the progressive, humanist, void of God, left chooses to do so, and for that I think we have to go to scripture: First, we definitely should be wary of the tongue and it's power: James 3: 1-12     There is no doubt that the tongue is powerful and destructive. Is say that because it's true.  But the emphasis in this passage is the tongue is destructive especially when we “praise our Father in Heaven” but curse our brothers and sisters…this really speaks to a hypocrisy, a presentation of being two completely different individuals. Read Ephesians 4:15     Now the rubber meets the road. In my mind, the purpose of the left is to silence disagreement, silence those who would call out sin, but as Christians, we should silence our own tongues if we are cursing those we disagree with. BUT and this is a huge BUT, taming our tongue does not mean silencing truth - huge distinction.  

“Khomeinism” - Part 26 of the Roqe Media series, The Contemporary History of Iran. Of all the figures of modern Iranian history, few draw more of a reflexive reaction than the leader who was centre of the revolution of 1979: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Who was the man that led the creation of the Islamic Republic which remains the regime in power in Iran today? And was he, in fact, a fundamentalist clergyman, or…a shrewd populist? And how, despite a decade of turbulence in Iran, did he stay in power until his death in 1989? In short, what was Khomeinism? Esteemed scholar and author, Dr Ervand Abrahamian, considered one of the preeminent Iranian historians of his generation and a leading historian on modern Iran, joins Jian Ghomeshi from New York for the second of two consecutive conversations, this time focusing on the political mind and legacy of Khomeini.

15 años de exilio en Turquía terminaron con el retorno a Irán del líder y consejero de la revolución islámica Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Grandes cambios acontecieron en la política local y exterior iraní, producto del reemplazo de la monarquía autoritaria pro occidental que la gobernaba por una teocracia republicana, autoritaria y anti occidental, ahora creada por el nuevo régimen Islámico que nació producto de las revueltas ciudadanas iraníes en gran medida influenciadas por el clérigo y sus ideas de gobierno. Tal fue su influencia que desencadenó la aprobación de un referendo para la implementación del estado islámico junto con la estructuración de una nueva constitución ahora con carácter republicano y de definición teocrática, cambios que desencadenaron el fin de la relación armónica que había mantenido el último monarca persa el Shah con Israel. Fue así como la enorme comunidad judía iraní, aproximadamente 80.000 judíos que vivian en Irán fueron atacados sufriendo la confiscación de sus propiedades por el régimen, obligando a que cerca de un tercio de los judíos iraníes huyeran de ese país.

Rodney “Rocky” Sickmann United States Marine Corps Sergeant and P.O.W., Iranian Hostage CrisisAuthor, Iranian Hostage: A Personal Diary of 444 Days in CaptivityRetired U.S. Director, Military and Industry Affairs, Anheuser-Busch InBev. Senior Vice President of Budweiser Accounts, Folds of Honor_____________________________________________________________________________________ Rodney “Rocky” Sickmann graduated from Washington High School in 1976 and immediately entered the U.S. Marine Corps. In 1979, just 28 days into his tour of duty at American Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Sickmann became a player in one of the most terrifying events in U.S. history. On November 4, 1979, after months of turmoil marked by the return of the exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun by militants and its employees taken captive. Sergeant Rocky Sickmann, then just 22, was one of 65 Americans taken hostage. Sickmann remained a hostage for 444 days before being released on Jan. 20, 1981 following 14 months of diplomacy by President Jimmy Carter.Three months later, Sickmann was Honorably Discharged after six years in the U.S. Marine Corps and received several accolades during his service including the Prisoner of War Medal, The Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Award of Valor, and Good Conduct Medal. Following the military, he began working in advertising for KMOX radio in St. Louis, Mo. and then entered the private sector for Anheuser-Busch InBev. He spent the next 34 years with the company, most recently as the U.S. National Director for Military and Industry Affairs, until his retirement in July 2016. Sickmann's personal diary, “Iranian Hostage: A Personal Diary of 444 Days in Captivity” is also the only known diary to have been smuggled out of Iran and published. The diary is no longer in publication.  As the U.S. National Director for Military and Industry Affairs at Anheuser-Busch InBev, Sickmann oversaw all Military Special Events, Military and Industry Trade Media Publications, and National Industry Trade Shows. Throughout his career at Anheuser-Busch, Sickmann also played a key role in increasing Anheuser-Busch's market penetration among the Military by training wholesalers, coordinating marketing and publicity, executing national sales promotions, and planning special military events. Sickmann helped coordinate the “Here's to the Heroes Tour” which salutes the men and women of the armed forces, allowing Americans to show their support for the troops via recorded messages filmed on location at community events, celebrations, and festivals nationwide and shared with U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.Personally and professionally, Sickmann has been fortunate to share his story on many different platforms including ABC News, ESPN, Fox & Friends, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, NFL Time Line Series, The New York Times, to the cast of the Oscar award-winning film Argo (starring Ben Affleck), national and local Veteran and Military organizations, and educational institutions across the country. In August 2016, Sickmann's military and professional experience, coupled with his passion for our armed forces, led him to pursue an opportunity with his favorite non-profit organization: Folds of Honor. In this new role, Sickmann helps advance the Folds mission: To stand in the financial gap of the more than one million dependents adversely affected by war, providing educational scholarships to the children and spouses of those killed or disabled while serving our nation. Sickmann and his wife (40 Years), Jill, have three children, Hannah (Hannah Wehrle, Granddaughter Lela, Grandson Rhett and husband Matt Wehrle), Chelsea (Chelsea Frese, Grandson Woodson, Grandaughter Rooney and husband Kalen Frese) and Spencer.

In this special episode. Paul & Stacey sit down with USMC Veteran Rocky Sickmann. Rodney “Rocky” Sickmann graduated from Washington High School in 1976 and immediately entered the U.S. Marine Corps. In 1979, just 28 days into his tour of duty at American Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Sickmann became a player in one of the most terrifying events in U.S. history. On November 4, 1979, after months of turmoil marked by the return of the exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun by militants and its employees taken captive. Sergeant Rocky Sickmann, then just 22, was one of 65 Americans taken hostage. Sickmann remained a hostage for 444 days before being released on Jan. 20, 1981 following 14 months of diplomacy by President Jimmy Carter.Three months later, Sickmann was Honorably Discharged after six years in the U.S. Marine Corps and received several accolades during his service including the Prisoner of War Medal, The Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Award of Valor, and Good Conduct Medal. Following the military, he began working in advertising for KMOX radio in St. Louis, Mo. and then entered the private sector for Anheuser-Busch InBev. He spent the next 34 years with the company, most recently as the U.S. National Director for Military and Industry Affairs, until his retirement in July 2016. Sickmann's personal diary, “Iranian Hostage: A Personal Diary of 444 Days in Captivity” is also the only known diary to have been smuggled out of Iran and published. The diary is no longer in publication.  As the U.S. National Director for Military and Industry Affairs at Anheuser-Busch InBev, Sickmann oversaw all Military Special Events, Military and Industry Trade Media Publications, and National Industry Trade Shows. Throughout his career at Anheuser-Busch, Sickmann also played a key role in increasing Anheuser-Busch's market penetration among the Military by training wholesalers, coordinating marketing and publicity, executing national sales promotions, and planning special military events. Sickmann helped coordinate the “Here's to the Heroes Tour” which salutes the men and women of the armed forces, allowing Americans to show their support for the troops via recorded messages filmed on location at community events, celebrations, and festivals nationwide and shared with U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.Personally and professionally, Sickmann has been fortunate to share his story on many different platforms including ABC News, ESPN, Fox & Friends, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, NFL Time Line Series, The New York Times, to the cast of the Oscar award-winning film Argo (starring Ben Affleck), national and local Veteran and Military organizations, and educational institutions across the country. In August 2016, Sickmann's military and professional experience, coupled with his passion for our armed forces, led him to pursue an opportunity with his favorite non-profit organization: Folds of Honor. In this new role, Sickmann helps advance the Folds mission: To stand in the financial gap of the more than one million dependents adversely affected by war, providing educational scholarships to the children and spouses of those killed or disabled while serving our nation. If you would like to learn more or donate to Folds Of Honor. Please visit their website. https://foldsofhonor.org/

“How the Iran-Iraq War Benefited Khomeini” - Part 4 of the new Roqe Media series, The Contemporary History of Iran. How much did the new Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini regime actually benefit from a war that was declared a patriotic and religious national duty in the early 1980s? And, in fact, can it be argued that the consolidation of power by Khomeini and the Islamic formalists in the years during and after the conflict was actually only made possible by an 8-year war? Iranian-American scholar, Dr. Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh, associate professor of history at Northeastern Illinois University, and author of the new book, “Iranian Women & Gender in the Iran-Iraq War,” joins Jian Ghomeshi from Chicago to make the case that the longest war of the 20th Century actually served as a tool and necessary crisis to rally a divided and suddenly isolated Iranian nation, and cement the power of the Islamic Republic leaders.

Devin: Sanam, what is your superpower?Sanam: Sometimes, I think that my superpower is the power of the powerless speaking truth to power.Devin: Malalai, what’s your superpower?Malalai: So I would like to speak about it, not as an individual, but as part of a group, the group of women, peacebuilders whose superpower is building peace. I have always been inspired by those women building peace in the most dangerous conflict zones under harsh situations. I am personally pro-peace, and I worked for peace in Afghanistan and Iran, and I am also coming from an educational background in peace studies. I did my international study, master’s degree at the University of Notre Dame, yet my superpower is actually derived from women peacebuilders around the world.After 1300 episodes, this one was the most painful I have ever recorded. My guests, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, founder of International Civil Society Action Network, and Malalai Habibi, a program manager there, are in constant dialog with people in Malalai’s native Afghanistan.Following the Taliban takeover of the country, thousands of people who worked with and under American and allied soldiers in the military, local police forces, courts and elsewhere are effectively under house arrest and are in fear for their lives. As I spoke with Sanam and Malalai, I could hear and feel their pain. I can only imagine the pain of those left behind.For Malalai, no imagination is required. She knows firsthand the pain and fear of those left behind. As a young girl, she was forced to flee to Iran as a refugee with her family. Later, she was able to immigrate to the United States. She was awarded the Kroc fellowship and earned her MA in Global Affairs, International Peace Studies from Keough School at Notre Dame.Sanam feels a personal connection, too. She is just old enough to remember her native Iran under the Shah. She was 11 years old when the Iranian Revolution changed her life dramatically, as Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took control. “Overnight, our lives completely disappeared,” she says. “You go to sleep in one life, and then you’re waking up in a completely different life.”For the past two decades, more recently joined by Malalai, Sanam has been working internationally at peacebuilding. She has worked at both the most on-the-ground, grassroots level and the global level at the United Nations and has even been invited to speak at the General Assembly.Over the years, ICAN (as Sanam abbreviates International Civil Society Action Network) has worked closely with women worldwide to implement peacebuilding practices. Afghanistan has been one of many countries where the nonprofit has done its work, allowing Sanam and Malalai to develop personal relationships. The work encompasses countries around the globe, including Nigeria, Yemen and Colombia. Weekly calls keep the global teams connected, literally applying a mantra Sanam invoked during our conversation, suggesting that peacebuilding must be “locally rooted, globally connected.”As I spoke to Sanam and Malalai about their superpowers, Sanam wanted to focus her thoughts on peacebuilding, just like Malalai, despite having said her superpower was helping the “powerless speak truth to power.” In her exquisite pain at this moment, using her voice to speak out on behalf of Afghanis threatened by the Taliban and those evacuated who face uncertain futures is a power she’s using as much as she can. Still, her life’s work remains peacebuilding, so we’ll focus on that superpower.How You Can Develop Peacebuilding as Your SuperpowerSanam and Malalai both have deep personal as well as professional connections to peacebuilding. Malalai described her relationship this way. My parents and then all my life, myself and my brothers have been going through—from place to place—we have been experiencing the the war and its byproducts, which is discrimination, which is marginalization, which is deprivation. I do not want to see that happen to my kids, to other kids, especially now that we are in the 21st century and whatever is happening, you shouldn't see that someone is deprived from the very basic rights.Here are some insights I’ve summarized from Everyone can be a peacebuilder. Malalai was clear in her remarks, not only that everyone can be but that everyone must be a peacebuilder. She feels so strongly about this being a collective action that she refused to describe the superpower as hers alone; instead, Malalai spoke about the power of collective action and the energy she draws from a global movement of women working for peace.Listen. Sanam painted a vivid picture of American families fractured by politics gathering and refusing to talk about politics out of fear over conflict. She argues that peacebuilding begins with someone saying, “let me listen to you.”Humanize. Sanam also points out that it is easy to demonize others. That is simply one way of dehumanizing other people who disagree with us. Once they are subhuman, it becomes frightfully easy to begin taking away human rights and then start shooting.Sanam shared a compelling example of her peacebuilding efforts in Jamaica. There, she was interacting with gang leaders. She began, “What are you worried about? What do you want?” “The answer that I got from a bunch of these guys was, ‘We have children, and we want them to be educated and well-spoken and have good table manners,’” she says.“I have children. They were four years old, five years old at the time that I went to Jamaica to do this research, and all of a sudden, this guy and I had something to talk about,” Sanam says. In that simple exchange, she humanized a group of people who led lives vastly different from hers, enabling her to have a peaceful conversation. She notes that he may keep guns under his bed while she advocates for stricter gun laws at home, but they still found common ground.You can be a peacemaker. If we take Malalai to heart, we must all be peacemakers. Together, we can work to make peacemaking a superpower for good. Get full access to Superpowers for Good at devinthorpe.substack.com/subscribe

Photo: A pencil sketch of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini [founding mullah of the current Iranian Islamic republic] shooting missiles at the Persian Gulf through a pea shooter. The sketch was done on a navigational map by a crew member of the reflagged Kuwaiti tanker SS GAS PRINCE in the Persian Gulf CBS Eyes on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow The ayatollah grows patient at the Washington impatience. Behnam Ben Taleblu @FDD https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-plans-sanctions-against-irans-drones-and-guided-missiles-11627556400?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/5ouy3z8Rt6 https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/politics/blinken-iran-talks/index.html https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-khamenei-blames-cowardly-us-pause-nuclear-talks-2021-07-28/ https://iranintl.com/en/iran/iran-protestors-block-roads-call-death-khameneihttps://iranintl.com/en/world/us-backs-rights-iranians-protest-and-access-information

Folks, this one might get ya' bois in some trouble. The "complex" minds behind JTM picked one heck of a heavy topic to unleash upon you, the innocent and unsuspecting listener. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini did some straight up grisly shit. Get some nog in your gob asap as possible because this aforementioned chestnut gets thoroughly roasted. Happy holidays from all of us at Justice Time Machine! justicetimemachine@gmail.com | @justicetimemachine | johnnyrk.com | @johnnyrk | @elis_trashcan wikipedia.org | britannica.com | sourcemeter.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/justice-time-machine/support

In 1953, the CIA engineered the overthrow of Iran’s popular Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, and propped up instead the country’s detested monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi — the Shah of Iran. Exploiting Iran’s oil fields, the Shah enriched himself while the country’s workers struggled, and his security forces ruthlessly persecuted dissidents who protested the regime.    By the late 1970s, the Shah’s cruelty toward the Iranian people would finally blow up in his face, as the country revolted in a series of strikes and protests. One of the Shah’s harshest critics — Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — would emerge as a leading figure in Iran’s revolution and the Islamic Republic that would follow.    As for the Shah, he looked for sanctuary in his old ally — the United States. But President Jimmy Carter’s reception of the tyrant inflamed tensions in Tehran, and a group of students responded by seizing the U.S. embassy and holding 52 of its diplomats hostage. In this episode, we bring you the story of Iran’s 1979 Revolution and the events now known as the hostage crisis.    Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/dascriminal    Sources: https://bit.ly/3bhoMVw

Iranians have commemorated the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. The mass movement deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's monarchy and replaced it with a theocracy led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The new system of government was supposed to raise millions of people out of poverty and reduce the wealth gap. But, as Mobin Nasir reports, more than four decades on, there are few improvements for ordinary citizens to celebrate. For more on this, we were joined by Babak Emamian in London. He's a financial advisor at Openwork and a member of the British Iranian Business Association #Iran #IslamicRevolution #EconomicChaos

America and Iran have not had an easy relationship since 1979, when 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days by students supporting the Iranian Revolution. The resulting rise of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini further weakened the relationship. Decades later, Iran is still seen by much of the democratic world through the lens of political tension, war and mistrust of political leaders who for decades have called for death to America and the destruction of Israel. Yet over those decades, the people and culture of Iran have been quietly changing at the grassroots level, unnoticed amid the amplified political rhetoric that has kept Iran divided from much of the world. Connecticut is home for many Iranians who make our state a more diverse and desirable place to live and work. Yet, we don't mingle with one another enough, sticking instead to those with whom we feel most comfortable. Maybe it's time we take another look at Iran.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On January 3, General Qassem Soleimani, the military commander most beloved by Iranians and leader of its elite Quds Force, was assassinated in a targeted U.S. drone airstrike outside Baghdad International Airport, ordered by US President Donald Trump. Throngs of Iranians attended Soleimani's funeral in the capital of Tehran on Monday in a scene reminiscent of the 1989 funeral of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We know that Trump is not well-read, ignorant and not learned. Are there parallels between this assassination and that of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria? Are the mainstream media and American politicians trying to play both sides on this issue? GUESTS:Jefferson Morley — Journalist and editor who has worked in Washington journalism for over 30 years, 15 of which were spent as an editor and reporter at The Washington Post. The author of "The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton" and "Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA," Morley has written about intelligence, the military and politics for Salon, The Atlantic and The Intercept, among others.Dr. Gerald Horne — Professor of history at the University of Houston and author of many books, including "Blows Against the Empire: US Imperialism in Crisis." Jon Jeter — Author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief and award-winning foreign correspondent.Marjorie Cohn - Professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the former president of the National Lawyers Guild.Dr. Jack Rasmus — Professor of economics at Saint Mary's College of California and author of "Central Bankers at the End of Their Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Coming Depression." Daniel Lazare — Journalist and author of three books: "The Frozen Republic," "The Velvet Coup" and "America's Undeclared War."

*Listen for details on how to win tickets to our Los Angeles live show!* Salman Rushdie is a most singular figure. He’s authored 19 books, accrued countless awards, and spent about a decade in hiding after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for his death. Needless to say, Chris Hayes jumped at the chance to have a conversation with Salman Rushdie about his life and the ways his particular experiences shape his worldview. In one hour, they manage to cover the political climate in India and the US, the opioid epidemic, belonging, reality television, immigration, his newest novel “Quichotte”, and more. Did we mention he’s a knight?   RELATED READING: Quichotte by Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Buy tickets to our October 21st Los Angeles live show here!

It’s been 40 years since the Islamic revolution in Iran. In 1979, many Iranians felt a strong sense of hope as change was sweeping through their country. Ayatollah Khomeini’s return to Iran from exile was one of the most significant moments of the revolution. Now, 40 years later, we’re hearing more of what was going on behind the scenes. Also, we hear from two Iranians born after the revolution, who are so frustrated with conditions inside Iran, that they want to leave; we’ll look at how US sanctions on Iran are impacting American businesses; plus, the story of an Iranian-American navy veteran who grew up in revolutionary Iran; and Iranian women’s rights advocate, Masih Alinejad, explains how political hair can be in Iran. (Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini leaving the Air France Boeing 747 jumbo that flew him back from exile in France to Tehran. Credit: Gabriel Duval/Getty Images)

  Im Jahr 1979 stürzten die Iraner den Schah und unterwarfen sich Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Mattias von Hellfeld erzählt. Die passende Ausgabe “Eine Stunde History” läuft am 11. Februar 2019 auf DLFnova.

  Im Jahr 1979 stürzten die Iraner den Schah und unterwarfen sich Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Mattias von Hellfeld erzählt. Die passende Ausgabe “Eine Stunde History” läuft am 11. Februar 2019 auf DLFnova.

Four decades ago, Iran was convulsed by one of the great revolutions of the 20th century. The leader of that revolution: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, would take the title: “supreme leader.” He was to be regarded, literally, as God’s “representative on Earth.” A charismatic, fire-and-brimstone cleric, he preached jihad against America and the West. When he died in 1989, his disciple, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, became the new supreme leader. He has called the Islamic Revolution the “turning point in modern world history.” His regime now influences Iraq, has military forces propping up the Assad dictatorship in Syria—where more than half a million people have been killed and millions made homeless—controls Lebanon through Hezbollah, backs the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and penetrates Latin America. Supreme Leader Khamenei also has a nuclear weapons program—perhaps delayed but certainly not ended by the deal President Obama agreed to—as well as a program to develop missiles capable of delivering such weapons to targets anywhere in the world. To learn more about what lies ahead for the Islamic Republic, host Clifford D. May is joined by FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen—who has been studying the Islamic Republic since its inception —and FDD Research Fellow and Iran expert Behnam Ben Taleblu.

Four decades ago, Iran was convulsed by one of the great revolutions of the 20th century. The leader of that revolution: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, would take the title: “supreme leader.” He was to be regarded, literally, as God's “representative on Earth.” A charismatic, fire-and-brimstone cleric, he preached jihad against America and the West. When he died in 1989, his disciple, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, became the new supreme leader. He has called the Islamic Revolution the “turning point in modern world history.” His regime now influences Iraq, has military forces propping up the Assad dictatorship in Syria—where more than half a million people have been killed and millions made homeless—controls Lebanon through Hezbollah, backs the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and penetrates Latin America. Supreme Leader Khamenei also has a nuclear weapons program—perhaps delayed but certainly not ended by the deal President Obama agreed to—as well as a program to develop missiles capable of delivering such weapons to targets anywhere in the world. To learn more about what lies ahead for the Islamic Republic, host Clifford D. May is joined by FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen—who has been studying the Islamic Republic since its inception —and FDD Research Fellow and Iran expert Behnam Ben Taleblu.

Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi became the Shah of Iran at twenty-two years of age. He would go from a powerless figurehead to one of the most powerful monarchs in the region. However, the Shah was brought down by an obscure Shiite scholar name Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In this episode, we'll start to discover the history behind the 1979 Iranian Revolution. After the show is over, be sure to visit the Show Notes page. The Show Notes are available at:  http://islamiclearningmaterials.com/Iran1 Here's some of what you'll find:  The transcript for this episode Links to other related resources You can support the Islamic History Podcast by doing one (or more) of the following: Give a monthly pledge on Patreon Subscribe on iTunes Share with your friends and family You can do it all and more at the Show Notes page:

For the most part, the Iranian Revolution had taken place with little violence. Once the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, had left the country seeking cancer treatment in January of 1979 and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile in February, the Islamic Republic was established with Khomeini as the Supreme Leader. Then a group of 200 university students stormed the United States Embassy on November 4. They were supporters of Khomeini, but had no direction from him when they took the Embassy. The students managed to hold 66 people hostage, and eventually did receive the support of the Ayatollah. This put the United States in a bind, which the administration of Jimmy Carter sought to resolve. After the hostage takers released 9 people, mostly African-Americans and women to show they were on the side of the oppressed, it appeared they would not let go. The Carter Administration attempted a military rescue, which failed horribly. Once the Iran-Iraq war broke out, Iran was more willing to negotiate. Yet Carter was facing a reelection campaign, seeking a second term in office. Eventually, Carter would lose exactly one year after the hostages were taken, and Iran did not release the hostages until Carter's successor, Ronald Reagan, was sworn in as President.

America and Iran have not had an easy relationship since 1979, when 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days by students supporting the Iranian Revolution. The resulting rise of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini further weakened the relationship.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Iran makes the news it is often that country's flamboyant and provocative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who finds himself under the spotlight. But the man who wields real power in Iran is not Ahmadinejad, nor was it any of his predecessors as president. Instead it is the man who has served as the head of the country's religious structure since 1989, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.The Ayatollah owes his rise to power to two men - his predecessor as Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the previous president, Hashemi Rafsanjani. Ayatollah Khamenei has been a cleric for most of his life, beginning as a religious scholar in the city of Mashhad at the tender age of 11. He served several terms in jail as a result of his religious convictions during the secular dictatorship of the Shah. His rise to power began with the revolution of 1979 that turned Iran into the Islamic Republic. Khamenei became, first president, a post with relatively little power, and his election as Supreme Leader after the death of Khomenei was a surprise to all. Many believe this was engineered by Rafsanjani to allow Rafsanjani himself to remain in control.But Khamenei has gradually made himself the most powerful man in Iran - and he's done so by recruiting the Revolutionary Guard to his side. There are those who say that far from a religious dictatorship, Iran is in fact a military dictatorship. But Ali Khamenei is 72 and with 70 per cent of the Iranian population having been born since the revolution, it's not clear that the post of Supreme Leader will survive his death.Producer TIM MANSEL Presenter JAMES REYNOLDS.