{"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 Two: The Road to Revolution","slug":"iran-oil-power-and-protest-part-two-the-road-to-revolution","published_at":"2026-05-20T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hostile-history-7855684/iran-oil-power-and-protest-part-two-the-road-to-revolution","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hostile-history-7855684","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CORU6470854496.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CORU6470854496.mp3","summary":"In Part Two of our four-part series on modern Iran, we move from the oil boom years of the 1970s to the collapse of the Shah’s regime and the birth of the Islamic Republic. Fueled by soaring oil prices, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi appeared stronger than ever. Tehran was transforming into a modern global capital, the military was expanding at breakneck speed, and Iran had become one of America’s most important allies in the Middle East. But beneath the surface, anger was building. Historian Roham Alvandi from the London School of Economics and Political Science joins Hostile History as we travel back in time to chart what happened after the monarchy lost control and revolution set in.","meta_description":"In Part Two of our four-part series on modern Iran, we move from the oil boom years of the 1970s to the collapse of the Shah’s regime and the birth of the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2059,"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-two-the-road-to-revolution/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-two-the-road-to-revolution.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}