The Shah and the Iranian Revolution | Part 2 | Carter, Khomeini and the CIA| Ancient to Recent | Episode 34

The Shah and the Iranian Revolution | Part 2 | Carter, Khomeini and the CIA| Ancient to Recent | Episode 34

In this episode of Ancient to Recent, we follow Iran at the height of its apparent power in the mid-1970s, a country awash in oil money, armed to the teeth, and ruled by a monarch who believed history itself was on his side. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Iran looked unstoppable: soaring growth rates, grand infrastructure projects, and an alliance with the United States that seemed unshakeable.


But beneath the spectacle of modernity, the foundations were already cracking. Rapid development brought inflation, corruption, housing shortages, and social dislocation. The Shah’s centralized system rewarded loyalty over competence, silenced dissent, and left him increasingly isolated inside a bubble of good news and bad assumptions.


This episode traces how oil wealth overheated the economy, how repression deepened mistrust, and how American policy, shaped by Cold War blind spots and wishful thinking, ailed to grasp the scale of Iran’s internal crisis. We explore the rise of mass protests, the regime’s oscillation between reform and force, and the fatal miscalculations that followed the Cinema Rex fire, Black Friday, and the collapse of state authority.


As strikes spread, the economy grinds to a halt, and the Shah vacillates at the moment of decision, a once-confident regime drifts into paralysis. Meanwhile, from exile, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini emerges as the only figure capable of uniting a fractured opposition, setting Iran on a path from unrest to revolution.


Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent continues its series on the Iranian Revolution, charting how a state that appeared strong, stable, and modern unraveled with astonishing speed.


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