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The speaker says that before 1979 Saudi Arabia and Iran were friendly, similar states: monarchies, secular, reliant on American protection, and prosperous oil exporters.
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The speaker says that before 1979 Saudi Arabia and Iran were friendly, similar states: monarchies, secular, reliant on American protection, and prosperous oil exporters.
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"...we have to look at their history. So the year is 1979. And there's a story. At the start of 1979, Saudi Arabia and..."
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"...is the Suez Canal. Okay? The Red Sea, basically. And in 1979, Saudi Arabia and Iran were very good friends. They had a lot..."
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"...the Yom Kippur War, larger than the price rise in the 1979 when prices increased by a factor of four. And it's basically destruction..."
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"...Shah regime, which was a brutal police state from 1953 to 1979, the Americans were the ones who were backing this police state. So..."
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"...Americans. Okay? Remember that Iranians remember the Shah. From 1953 until 1979, the Shah, the American supported Shah was running a brutal police state...."
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"...father passing on leadership to his son. Because remember that in 1979, the Iranians had a revolution to overthrow the king. And everyone was..."
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"...are they separate from the army? Well, it goes back to 1979. Remember in 1979, there was a popular uprising against the Shah of..."
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"...the revolution across the Middle East. Okay? So, let's talk about 1979. In 1979, the Shah left Iran because there were so many protests..."
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"...so, to counter the threat of the Shah, in November of 1979, 300 to 500 students, college students, stormed the U.S."
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"...this caused an earthquake throughout the Middle East. In November of 1979, 600 religious extremists tried to besiege Mecca, okay? Mecca is the holiest..."
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"So for example, in 1979, the people who laid siege to Saudi Arabia, they were the people who were the most important. The people..."
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"...exert influence over the Middle East, because after the revolution in 1979, many countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United States, encouraged Iraq to..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran moved from religion and oil into proxy war, exposed the kingdom's fragile infrastructure, and made a Trump-led America the weapon Saudi...
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