{"podcast":{"title":"Deborah Lebree's podcast","slug":"deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113","podcast_index_feed_id":7041113,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6015089/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast--6015089","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/images.spreaker.com/nuvolari-assets/yellow_square_mic.jpg","author":"Deborah Lebree","episode_count":1000,"summary":null,"last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T20:19:21.411789+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113"},"episode":{"title":"1979: How the U.S. and Iran Went From Allies to Enemies","slug":"1979-how-the-u-s-and-iran-went-from-allies-to-enemies","published_at":"2026-06-12T09:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/1979-how-the-u-s-and-iran-went-from-allies-to-enemies","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1979-how-the-u-s-and-iran-went-from-allies-to-enemies--72496499","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72496499/default.mp3","summary":"At the heart of the current U.S. war against Iran is an inconvenient truth: that the United States is, in many ways, responsible for creating the very regime it now seeks to topple. Today, Scott Anderson, a New York Times Magazine contributor, tells the story of America’s outsize role in the Islamic Revolution, and why all these years later we’re still no closer to understanding Iran. Guest: Scott Anderson , a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Background reading: It has been a trying time for the Islamic republic of Iran . Photo: George Tames/The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher . For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.","meta_description":"At the heart of the current U.S. war against Iran is an inconvenient truth: that the United States is, in many ways, responsible for creating the very reg…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3094,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/episodes/1979-how-the-u-s-and-iran-went-from-allies-to-enemies/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/1979-how-the-u-s-and-iran-went-from-allies-to-enemies.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}