Part One: The First Shah of Iran

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Robert Evans· Host0:02

What's illegal? My US invasions of several countries, actually, uh, that have been happening- Mm-hmm ... recently.

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Robert Evans· Host0:14

And also my entire life. [laughs] I'm Robert Evans. This is Behind the Bastards- [laughs] ... a podcast about bad people, the worst in all of history, several of whom are currently in the Trump administration, where they have recently orchestrated, uh, what is already ramping up to be a bloody war with Iran. Uh, we're covering what's happening, uh, in an ongoing basis on our daily news podcast, It Could Happen Here. Um, but, you know, that's not what we do over, uh, at, at Behind the Bastards. You know, we're not, we're not breaking news here. Our specialty is, like, pieces of shit. And that, uh, makes us, I think, well-suited to talk about why is stuff, uh, like, why is the Western world's relationship with Iran what it is? Like, how did, how did all of this shit start? Like, what, what was going on that kind of led to the, the present situation? And if you wanna tell that story, you have to start with the 1700s and the 1800s and the period of, like, particularly what- what's called the Great Game, which is, you know, kind of this thing that happens at the height of British and Russian imperialism. Um, and you have to talk about the Shah, the very first Shah