Brent Tucker (9:29)
All right, can you put a pause in there, Drew, and get to it? All right, let me do a little bit of history for you guys so you understand where. How we got here and the history of Iran. Okay. In 1906, the Constitutional Revolution was an effort to reform and modernize an outdated Islamic state. Democratically elected officials formed the parliament and reduce the power of the monarchy. So the. Before that and for centuries before that, Iran was a heavy, heavy Muslim country. So at one point in 1906, like, we're not really keeping up with the times because of this. We. We need to modernize. And you'll see that you could almost pull it from the headlines today. And, you know, that's. That's what they. They should have done but didn't. And it happened in 1906. Now, it didn't last long because just almost 20 years later in 1925, a military coup led by Raza Khan took power and persuaded a philosophy of secular nationalization or nationalism, attempting to truly modernize the country. They viewed Islam's influence as an obstacle to progress. So even though they tried to do it in 1906, they never really got there. Or. Or did enough. And then in 1925, Razakan's like, no, we. We got to go. We got to go much further for this than this. I think it's funny, back in 1925, one of the biggest reason he cites is that Islam is a obstacle to progress. We should be getting smarter with time, right? Like, how. How is. How are they seeing it? 1925, and if you said that same thing today, you'd have hell to pay by people. So in 1925, this is the Progress they made. Hijabs were banned, women's rights to vote were implemented. That's pretty progressive for a Middle Eastern Place in 1925. That might be progressive for some place in the western Societies in 1925. There is a reduced power of the clerics. Their universities thrived, they had a film industry, they had a modern music industry. The modern music filled the night scene with Western dressed patrons. However, oil money was hoarded by elites. Rulers had control of a brutal police force and the stage was set yet again for another coup that started in 1925. So 25 years later, seems about every two decades, Iran's like, no, and this is what I hate to hate to say. They actually were starting to implement the right things but with the right people and what you'll see over and over and over again. Even though they had better ideas, they it was implemented with strong handed dictators and they maintained a class system of the haves and have nots. In 1953, a US and British supported coup led the regime change after Iran nationalized its oil production in 1951, kicking out the British companies who legally founded, procured and processed the oil and always held their end of the bargain by paying Iran its agreed upon percentages. So 1951 they say, Hey, I know we made a deal. I know we said we want you to bring your resources, your science, your technology and do something we can't do and we're going to get a percentage of it and it'll be money that we never could have had. And then they make that deal and then years later in 1951 they're like, I don't know, you're making, you're making a lot of money. What if we just kicked you out of our country, reneged on all these deals and just kept it all for herself? Dick move guys, dick move. And the Brits should have went to war with them back in 1951 for doing that. But there's no real change or you know, things haven't changed. Venezuela did the same thing to American oil companies in the 1980s and we didn't do anything about it. This gave American influence into the highest level of Iran. The Iranian shaw who ruled it as an authoritarian fashion, suppressing certain sex. Once again the stage was set for unrest. Again we did a coup change which wasn't a problem. They've been doing changes. The problem is we put another authoritarian person in charge. That continued the same old, same old. At their center of the unrest is Ayatollah Koamani, a charismatic cleric blaming the influence of America as the root cause for Iran's problems. When the Shah fled to Iran in 1979, Kani sought to fill the power vacuum with a government rooted in deep Sharia law. Although other entities were pushing for a more balanced approach. This possibility vanished when the Iranian revolutionaries stormed the US embassy in November of 1979. Kani, not yet in power, supported the terrorist and his popularity grew. And at the end of 1979 the Iranian constitution was ratified and the position Supreme Leader was created. For Koamani, the Islamic takeover was complete. School systems were Islamified, their universities no longer centers of of excellence and education, massive reduction in women's rights, political executions skyrocketed. Independent newspapers, closed streets had roving religious gangs enforcing Sharia law. This is, this is exactly who the left will come and try to defend. It's absolutely. They're everything the left hates and they'll come to defend them. From 1980 to 1988, the Iraq Iranian war rallied the country to unify despite these harsh conditions. And so, but yeah, kind of pull a page. It's not a page out of our playbook. It's, it's, it's a page in every country's playbook. Oh, you got a bunch of problems. Maybe a war could fix it. I wouldn't go as far to say that, that maybe America hasn't, hasn't pulled that card once or twice. I wouldn't argue it. Maybe, maybe not. So from 1980 to 1988 the whole country forgets about their problems and they just hate Iraq for a while while they lose about a million people in the process. No one wins that war. Both people go back to their countries and of course and, and Islamic dictator fashion they both claim victory after the Iran Iraq war. They needed a new enemy to hate and to distract the masses of a failing government with strong. And a failing government with strong handed policies. The usa, the burning of the American flag, a chance of death to America have been a common place for decades. Should I do the impression again? Until one man said.
