When America admired Iran, plus what are conservative environmentalists fighting for?
5/28/202655 min
Historian and author John Ghazvinian argues that the past fifty years of hostility between the U.S. and Iran are an exception in a much longer relationship marked by fascination, cooperation, and mutual admiration. And an American journalist embeds with a group of young Republican conservationists, to try to pin down what they really value.
Guests
John Ghazvinian, historian, former journalist and author of America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the PresentGaby del Valle, journalist, article in Harper's Magazine about the American Conservation Coalition
Clips
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[electronic music] ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music, and more. Tammy Shipley believed someone was out to hurt her. I thought someone was after me, and I wanted to just be safe. She's put under 24-hour surveillance.
Gabby Del Valle· Guest0:15
I tried to get in contact multiple times.
Speaker 10:17
I just need to make a phone call. Nobody knows where I am. And then something strange happens. She just drank and drank and had something like 20 liters of pure water.
John Ghazvinian· Guest0:27
Ambulance emergency. I've got a woman unconscious.
Speaker 10:29
Tammy's story. Search Background Briefing on ABC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.
David Marr· Host0:35
[upbeat music] Welcome to Late Night Live, coming to you from Gadigal Land. I'm David Marr. Climate change is a con job, says Donald Trump. Renewables are a waste of time. His theme song is Drill Baby Drill. But at the same time, a band of young Republicans is trying to revive an old-fashioned notion of conservation, where nature is God's work, where mining and conservation go hand in hand. Later, we'll explore the peculiar vision of the American Conservation Coalition. But first,