{"podcast":{"title":"Hostile History","slug":"hostile-history-7855684","podcast_index_feed_id":7855684,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/CORU3572507718","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/8a23b9c2-3cf6-11f1-9cb6-fb599f9f53d8/image/47eb1bb4eefbddd4c3d670d3b5da5705.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"David Borys / Curiouscast","episode_count":4,"summary":"Since the dawn of time humanity has been at war. Conflict in one form or another has been part of our existence since we first walked the earth. While conflict and armed rebellion have evolved to look very differently over the centuries, if it feels like we’ve been here before it's because we have. Join military historian David Borys who has spent his entire career studying armed conflict as he brings together some of the brightest minds to take you inside the world's most defining conflicts and rebellions. From Genghis Khan, and the Crusades to Vietnam and the war in Iran. If you want to understand the world today you need to go back because history doesn't just repeat itself, it echoes.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hostile-history-7855684"},"episode":{"title":"Iran: Oil, Power and Protest – Part Three: The Ayatollah’s Iran","slug":"iran-oil-power-and-protest-part-three-the-ayatollah-s-iran","published_at":"2026-06-03T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hostile-history-7855684/iran-oil-power-and-protest-part-three-the-ayatollah-s-iran","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hostile-history-7855684","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CORU2152974022.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CORU2152974022.mp3","summary":"In Part 3 of our four-part series, we explore what happened after the revolution and how Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini transformed Iran from a monarchy into an Islamic Republic that would reshape politics across the Middle East because once the monarchy fell, the battle over Iran’s future had only just begun. Hostile History is once again joined by historian Roham Alvandi from the London School of Economics and Political Science as we continue our journey","meta_description":"In Part 3 of our four-part series, we explore what happened after the revolution and how Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini transformed Iran from a monarchy into…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2460,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hostile-history-7855684/episodes/iran-oil-power-and-protest-part-three-the-ayatollah-s-iran/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hostile-history-7855684/iran-oil-power-and-protest-part-three-the-ayatollah-s-iran.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}