{"podcast":{"title":"The Daily","slug":"the-daily-7819709","podcast_index_feed_id":7819709,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6958478/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-daily--6958478","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a8343f20525ac095e043fa18f231c1d7.jpg","author":"The Daily NY","episode_count":1000,"summary":"This is what the news should sound like. The biggest stories of our time, told by the best journalists in the world. Hosted by Michael Barbaro, Rachel Abrams and Natalie Kitroeff. Twenty minutes a day, six days a week, ready by 6 a.m. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 🌎 THE STORIES THAT MATTER. EVERY SINGLE MORNING. Join 5M+ daily listeners staying ahead of the headlines. 📈 🎧 DON'T BE THE LAST TO KNOW Catch today's deep dive: ▶️ LISTEN NOW Never miss a beat: 🔔 SUBSCRIBE FREE","last_synced_at":"2026-06-18T20:18:16.061521+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-7819709"},"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/the-daily-7819709/1979-how-the-u-s-and-iran-went-from-allies-to-enemies","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-7819709","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1979-how-the-u-s-and-iran-went-from-allies-to-enemies--72496581","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72496581/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. 🌎 THE STORIES THAT MATTER. EVERY SINGLE MORNING. Join 5M+ daily listeners staying ahead of the headlines. 📈 🎧 DON'T BE THE LAST TO KNOW Catch today's deep dive: ▶️ LISTEN NOW Never miss a beat: 🔔 SUBSCRIBE FREE","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/the-daily-7819709/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/the-daily-7819709/1979-how-the-u-s-and-iran-went-from-allies-to-enemies.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}