It's ironic when he says that the British could no longer organize a coup because they no longer had an embassy in Tehran, and they turned to the US because they still had one. There's a joke in Latin America that goes, "Why aren't there coups in the US? Because there's no US embassy there."
Yeah, but according to some people there at the time, it was more about corruption and power plays in the government that caused the overthrow of Mossedegh...
The combination of history, storytelling, and comedy. This guy is truly a master at what he is doing. I would never ever sit and watch a 2 hours of lecture, but yet I was glued to my screen.
He conviently leaves out Reagan and the CIA , Col. North involvement in flooding America with cocaine and starting the Crack epidemic in Black neighborhoods to buy weapons from Israel to give to Iran and the contras giving Cocaine for the weapons and Col. North , Poindexter and company pardons ... not a word about the drugs and other things that he omits like the phony war on drugs they were bringing into the USA to re enslave Black people because the US constitution never abolished slavery and uses the loophole to make a for profit prison industriel complex complete with wall street stock like for profit healthcare ( google Nixon HMO tapes )
It is so dramatic to see how the minor political decisions in Washington and London could change the course of history for countries and nations such as Iran and cause prolonged suffering for millions of people over generations. The saddest part is that these intervenings are still taking place in 21st century in a more complex way
There are real major clandestine operation, people are no foul even hundreds years ago.because they trust even foreigners and that what happens.just like Putin trust he got war.
@Malibu 1978 Well, Western countries intervening in other nations is not a blame, it is a historical fact. It is a bit naive to think that the uprising of a radical anti-US leader such as Khomeini was due to the unfamiliarity of revolutionaries with his ideas. Instead, we should seek the root causes, the most important of which is the 1953 kudeta against Mosaddeq by CIA.
@Malibu-ku2to People's issues with Islamic rules is not nearly the same as why Iran has the economic situation it has right now. One of the smartest populations, insane technological and scientific achievement, the fastest country to become fully literate, all sorts of other achievements, but due to Western sanctions the country has no economic future, and people fight the government over dress codes, but that won't really make a difference for Iran's economic future. As long as the West sanctions them they are stuck. It's very sad
@user-gl8or4kb5r I didn’t say they don’t intervene. Islamic government is intervening in Arabic countries!!. You need to have a well responsible society, we you make a mistake admit it rather blaming others, look at Singapore, Japan , South Korea . Take responsibility be your own man!!!.
It’s absolutely incredible that this lecture is from 3 years ago. It feels like he’s talking about what is happening in Iran right now. Thank you, Dr. for making these lectures available to all of us.
@JimBo-bobobo-Bo-bo it is not about capturing, Iran is a nation with 90m+ population that will unite against Western colonizers. You cannot just bomb the government/army and expect the people to bow to you or nuke the country and expect other countries to do nothing. They did what they wanted, overthrow the democracy, and throwing the country into economic/militaristic and humanist decline. Have you even watched the video? From the name of the agents to, dates to documents he is not just telling a story, he is providing evidence that you can look up.
I've marinated some chicken drumsticks for the oven, and made some chimmichuri sauce. Let me know when you're ready. (For the record, your still fine gorging on BBQ. Those who turn the world wild continue to do so on your behalf, and make you feel like a king while you're kids are stripped of their birthright ... you fat on our dole).
Hearing this today amid Iran’s upheaval is a reminder of how history actually unfolds. Causes are planted long before their consequences appear. When crisis arrives we focus on the moment but what we’re witnessing is only the surface of much deeper roots.
I am a Gulf War veteran it is amazing what you can learn about a war I participated in 40 years later! We must question our politicians harder before commiting our service members to offensive wars.
The key is education. And travel. What were your comrade soldiers like, everyone knew about world politics, different cultures , languages...? If the enlisting process was divided by how many 18yo with no military background Vs how many 22yo, also no military upbringing, family etc, which age group could be coerced more easily into enlisting? My wild guess is 18 year olds are way more malleable, which is what gets taken advantage of.
Do not pay attention to this guy, he knows next to nothing of history, he's just another postmodern failure trying to push their narrative. Just by the virtue of being a veteran you are a much better person than he is. He does not deserve your respect. Thank you for your service
thank you. I wish army people refused to follow orders blindly. We would have more peaceful world if politicians new that their power is not supported by obedient army
Yesterday I was talking to my sister about the modern history of Iran and the West’s influence in shaping it. I guess Google was eavesdropping, because this showed up in my YT feed. I enjoyed this lecture and learned a lot despite it being interrupted with 45 ads.
Ads are the fricken worst. I swear any add that I see on YT ill go out of my way not to buy from what ever company it's from. I get that ads help pay for servers/channels/ect.. but an add every 3-5 minutes is just overkill
The incredibly scary thing is -- only US viewers get "interrupted" by a trillion ads (research shows you are more likely to give up watching if the video is continually interrupted by ads). YT's US censors KNOW this is dangerous stuff you're hearing, it puts the Uniparty system in grave jeopardy. So you better not watch. I'm watching from the periphery of the Empire in EU. I'm well past the one hour and fifteen minute mark, and have not been interrupted by one single ad. None. Nada.
he smiles and tell every thing and my eyes are filled with tears. We, Iranians lost 1 milion men in that era to hunger. brits and russians cut down many trees . Thank you.
تقریبآ نیمی از جمعیت (حدود ۹ تا یازده میلیون) دو سال آخر جنگ جهانی اول بر اثر قحطی از دست دادیم و بیماریهای ناشی از آن (چون بدن ضعیف میشود) در حالی که ایران اعلام بی طرفی کرده بود جنگ جهانی دوم هم بی طرف بودیم اما اشغال شدیم و باز قحطی فراگیر شد 😢
Indeed. But he is not making fun of your culture. He is just being ironic. We humans are the worst. None of this should have happened. But greed and inhumanity is what makes us do the things we do. That is what he mocks. Ive seen him speak. He finds what we do appalling. My island was taken over by the US when we were about to become independent. We are still property. All are society has become americanized. We are forgetting who we were. 120 years and some of us are still fighting for the little we still keep. Evil empires.
I’m afraid his style, irony as entertainment, doesn’t appeal to me. It is relentless and rather frustrating. Of course, his knowledge of the subject is huge, overflowing, but the way he communicates it is chaotic to me.
That's absolutely correct with even educated saying it's in the Middle East exactly like imbeciles told me Afghanis speak Arabic.. ludicrous and willfully ignorant.. fox tv aiding and abetting January 6th
Iran is the heart and the world is the body..if Iran is not well the world is not well. When the the swastika taken from Iran persia thing went wrong...look at old churches You will see water light air earth the swastika cross with longer tail..yalda becom Christmas . Fier Erth water air...swastika of persia..it will destroy you till go back to its home land ...the land of kings.then the world shall be in peace 😊
I'm so thrilled to see many more honest assessments about Iran. We have always been misrepresented and kinda left out of the world since that Qajar times... Iranians just want freedom and liberty, the ruling of just and updatable laws and the opportunity for growth in science, literature, architecture and technologies, which we been great at once in a time. This land still grows Hafiz, Rumi, Ibn-Sina, and Maryam-Mirzakhanis, alas, for so long we have been oppressed and forced to bury our greats before their time comes.
I love how the man tells the history of Iran (and his other lectures) that it's like a novel. I love to come and discuss history with him as a fellow history nerd. So many topics said in this 2h video that you can create a 20 2h video lecture just to give a little more depth. Like the freaking Iranian civil war because of the constitution and other things. I didn't mention it as a negative point, but as a positive and amazing point of this lecture! Really loved it and really really want to discuss history and politics with him.
He paints with very broad strokes...he's not trying to teach a history class, he's trying to show why the Iranians might not be the biggest fans of the US.
Loved this lecture, for the longest time I wanted to see you do sth like this (I watch since 2018), grateful for spreading good information for free. Thank you
As a Iranian, I am educated and have a good knowledge about history and politics, but I can't stop watching this man talking, considering the whole story is very painful for me and my country and I already know it all but as a scholar outside of Region he knows the stuff. I wish to be one of his talks. Respct
What did you think of him calling it Arabic Gulf right at the start? And if you find this educational, then I'd be safe to assume that you don't know much about your history...Iranian here too.
I came across dr Roy Casagranda's lecture videos a few days ago and i just can't stop watching and listening to them, the amount of clicks these videos are getting doesn't do justice at all to the quality that we're getting, i hope his lectures go viral soon. His intellect, information, humor and delivery is absolutely incredible. You can feel his love for history when he talks about it, and the way he presents each topic as well as the surrounding circumstances and information about them, which then in turn give you a perfect picture of whats going on when it all connects is absolute perfection. He's just a treasure.
I agree wholeheartedly. I think I have watched like 40 hours of his lectures this week. He makes me love history again and reminds me of one of my favorite teachers from when I was in school.
Personally, I love the way Dr. Casagranada delivers the information. TBH, I truly believe that when I found his videos a few years ago was when my interest in history was born. I got lost in it prior, it was overwhelming and I couldn’t keep up. But, I never had it delivered this way. I grew up in a small town in Delaware, USA. I know some people on here dislike his delivery, but different strokes for different folks. I think the ability to break that barrier and make the content reachable is true talent. No one asked, but that’s my thoughts on it. Carry on
@HatchedC Those things matter. Being a good researcher matters. If you're wrong in axiomatic ways, nothing you say can be trusted and it taints the body of your work. This man will go down as a charlatan. Don't waste brain power on him.
@andrewevans4722 Oh I take it all with a pinch of salt but I like to read or listen to multiple people on any topic. Helps weed out the biases portrayed by them and decide for myself what I think.
History is one subject to be truely causious about !!! Read and listen ، but becareful what to believe !!! Because we don't hear even one side of the story !!! We can fed by a fiction without knowing that !!
He gets paid by the governments and the corporations and globalists to do this the way they want. Not the truth. Be careful what to believe. He gets paid by foreign powers.
He gets paid by the governments and the corporations and globalists to do this the way they want. Not the truth. Be careful what to believe. He gets paid by foreign powers.
yes because he focuses on oration instead of actual research. I bet he stands in front of a mirror instead of with his nose in the books. He is a charlatan and you're a fool to listen to this fraud.
One of the best online classes I’ve seen. This teacher just rocks. Loving the Timothy Snyder on Ukraine too but this guy’s energy is contagious and engaging.
Wow, what a lecture, thank you so much, I hope the younger set appreciated all of these insights🤯🤔thank you because now things make sense. You brought the missing puzzle pieces.
Thank you very much Dr. Casagranda, it was a wonderful explanation from a foreigner's eyes and it defienetly made me sit up and take notice thanks to the new information that I've learnt in this video but i should've known long time ago. I Appriciate your efforts.
With my sceptical and highly critical mind i thought i hate this... But it turns out, my personality of always listening to all sides payed off and I could hardly critique it or feel like i was being gas lighted. Great info, great insight, great new knowledge. Thankyou. Love people like this.
I have a lot of respect for the speaker, however, I've watched only 6 minutes of this video and found two major mistakes; there exists more than one map from the Persian Gulf ( by this name) that is several centuries old. Secondly, the discovery at the Masjid Sulaiman, Iran oil field represents the first oil discovery in the Middle East. William Darssi (NOT Reynolds, as most sites on Google claim), an engineer working for what is called PB now, was the first person to do it.
It was a brief and clean lecture about our history… I learned a lot from it and tanks for being a help for us to find the way to achieve democracy… we know what we want the other bully’s got to understand this to… it’s our right and we will achieve our goal… Women Life Freedom ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
i understand the sensitivity regarding the naming of the Persian Gulf but......the man talks for 2h straight, with a mind-boggling flow, a myriad small references and side notes/jokes, an immensely coherent review and analysis of events and direct/indirect results that have happened from the late 1800s until today(at the time of the lecture). Could you please look at the entire forest he is laying in front of you and stop looking at the one tree you don't approve of?
What was bothering people was him pretending that it’s not his prejudice but British history which btw was not accurate. only later in mid 1900 the name Arabian guff was brought up for the first time
Yes, same. Second time because I really want to understand. Appreciative of educators whose main goal is to educate no matter who, what, why or where. Dr Casagrande is one of those educators. Extremely thankful
As an Iranian, I was in tears from the beginning to the end of this lecture, as I am aware of the ugly and bloody history of this past 150 years, masking the tremendous beauty and potential of Iran. It was mostly accurate and true Thank you
Do you agree with the idea that the students broke in the the US embassy just in order to prove then Americans ruined Iranian democracy? How about the Islamic radicalization these students had? If they were so peaceful then why did they keep hundreds employees hostage for months? I don't agree with the professor on this
@stick80 Why should he feel bad about it? You Americans should feel bad about it and maybe stop your awful government messing up foreign countries and end the fucking empire. How about that?
Most depictions of my country are in line with historical data. Some issues are present and some factors driving each event is also missed. These include the following. It's the Persian Gulf and has always been the Persian Gulf. Saddam had plans to disintegrate Iran and saw it as a Nationalist won with a great opportunity as Iran's army collapsed. Shah of Iran was obsessed with the potential communist/socialist competition and utilised the Islamic front as a way to stabilise the Monarchy and advocated freedom of Press for this movement but it backfired. Last 10 yrs of his reign, he had portrayed a superior complex to outcompete the west and make Iran the top 5 economy. The west from then on stopped backing him.
Well said, but I find an orchestrated smear campaign against the shah in these 70 years as if he was a Dictator (and there aren't any demon dictators on this earth, haa! ) just to feed the world the required intel narrative and alienate and fragmentize Iran, which I would say has been effective so far... This gentleman's presentation is also a college-level amusement presentation. More upset I am that the whole internal and external campaigns have been successful in breaking down Iranians' pride and unity and it is a very very sad fact as I can see as a strategist. the teamwork is in sham!
Your name is Mazdak, Khomeini if Sassanid era so I don't expect you know anything about the realities if 1979 regime change. You're simply the leftover of 1979 terrorists who occupied Iran on behalf of Anglo-Americans.
@PercocetPete go up the thread and read more longer answer but if you have any questions please ask. There are a lot of distorted facts showing things opposite esp about shah as a dictator. This is the narrative western system created to topple him which they did and with covered up stories to the world and khomeyni was their installed functionaries with full intl and logistic support of at least 8 counties...
I assume he means just keep a vague idea of the history. This is what we're told but be open to new truths revealed through whatever research you partake in or through world events. I'm sure you already know this tho, just a reminder. Never a bad thing :p @PercocetPete
As an Iranian familiar with the matters discussed, I should mention that there were a few inaccurate things said (e.g. Rafsanjani being a prime minister) but in general this was a very interesting and above all enjoyable talk. Thank you sir, you are a "shirin sokhan" speaker!
@andrewevans4722 indeed! As I wrote above, a huge distortion of history at 24:38 ! In reality, the Greeks did not invade the "Turkish" Izmir region as this professor (?) claims, nor they genocided the Turks! You see, the Turkish word "Izmir" is a paraphrase of the Greek word "Smirni"! That whole area had been Greek for thousands of years, long before the marauding Turks descended from Mongolia and militarily captured it! Even at the turn of the 20th century the majority of the population in the Smirni region was Greek! So, when the Greek army came to Smirni in 1919, they came to liberate that huge Greek population from the oppressing Turks! And they commited no genocide! On the contrary, the Turks commited three major genocides, against the Armenians, the Assyrians and the Greeks! They genocided approx. 400.000 Greeks, at Pontos and Smirni (Izmir)! But this apparently die-hard Turko-phile professor (?) simply distorts the whole history!
Pretty sure the Ottoman Empire declined due to new trade routes by Europeans that basically cut them off. Ottomans used to be part of the Silk Road that connected all three continents, however as Europeans found a different trade route via sea to Asia and Africa they essentially cut off the Ottomans. They can now trade directly with Asia and Africa instead of going through Ottoman-controlled provinces. Also, the Europeans had a whole continent to loot and plunder with the discovery of the Americas due to their trying to find these new trade routes via sea. This basically made them outpace the Ottomans.
The main thing that caused the decline was returning to a conservative mindset just like the Chinese Ming dynasty. They became too bureaucratic, banned a lot of trade with other countries and banned the printing press. Basically Quran was all you needed. The moors and vikings had already sailed to the Americas and along Africa. Queen isabella had already this knowledge. Europe on the other hand was parting ways with serfdom.
One of those trade routes was their slave trade which the Europeans cut off and slowly degraded, particularly the Barbary States which became french protectorates when they refused to stop enslaving europeans they ended up finding themselves as a european colony.
Exactly, except the “ Persian Gulf “which is unfortunately deliberately or wrongly referred to as “Arabic Gulf “ by an historian which is absolutely surprising .
@Rabolisk Apart from the fact that it was an interesting speech. But it is very important to say the name of the place correctly. The Persian Gulf is correct and not otherwise. Persian Gulf. Please learn my friend. thank you
@Rabolisk it’s the Persian Gulf and that’s what humanity calls it, not just ourselves and if you want us to make you remember, no problem, it’s about time to teach you guys again a lesson!
این یارو فاند میگیره از عربها که جمهوری رو به مردم شیاف کنه و با زنانه مردانه کردن انقلاب مردم ایران باعث بشه که اصلا این انقلاب به نتیجه نرسه... اما اجازه نداره به همین دلیل بگه خلیج فارس
Wonderful speech. I subscribed and shared it. I cannot stop listening and looking forward to listen more. Of course as a person who lived a big chunk of time in Iran, I might have some different opinions about doctor's comments but he is 99 percent accurate.
I am an Iranian, and even though I have heard and read about our recent history many times, this lecture was still an amazing and educational presentation, and I still learned a lot of interesting stuff about my country. Thank you for this awesome clip.
He left out Reagan and CIA flooding Black neighborhoods with drugs to buy weapons from European Jewish people in Palestine to sell at 4 times the price to buy more cocaine from the contras to Sell in Black neighborhoods and then make a war against drugs to re- enslave Black people for talking the drugs they flooded the communities with because the USA constitution allows slavery in prisons so they targeted Blacks and Hispanics although more whites use drugs than Blacks, They put crystal Ice in white communities so they could make it themselves from household products so they wouldn't spend a lot of money like the Crack they created for Blacks but it backfired because the crystal meth was worse than the Crack in the end
Great story for a movie with a lot of mistakes or false claims like Khameini has designated his son as his successor! Mistakes of the past are not important, but mistake that effect the future is extremely bad. He said Reza Shah and his family was arrested? Dr. Mosadegh closed British embassy then nationalized oil? Shah left the country for medical reason then revolution succeeded? Revolution happened in Spring? President Obama never apologized for 1983 coup, he only admitted it was a mistake?Shah'order for dismissing Dr. Mosadegh was not delivered at 3 AM it was around midnight? Mob in 1953 did not make the army to overthrow Dr. Mosaddegh, Dr. Mosaddegh ordered to stop demonstration. Student captured the US embassy in order to show that in 1953 US did the coupe and asked for apology> No they wanted Shah back for trail. Iran was center of CIA operation for all of Asia? I never heard such a thing? Does he have any document to prove this? Shah for political reason married his first wife prince Foozeehe, Because of this good relations president Sadat let Shah stay in Egypt when no one wanted him? When first Shah got married Egypt was a monarchy. Sadat was nice to Shah because Shah helped Egypt financially when Egypt needed. During the war gave them free oil. Later gave a lot of money to Egypt. Mirza Koochek Khan not Mirza Koochek Shah. I do not think he was a communist. More like Robin Hood.
This chap has a tendency to make things up as he goes along to suit the agenda/please certain people obviously. I think he has intentionally misplaced his history books.
It’s crazy that the prohibition in the USA where they banned alcohol was only because standard oil wanted to kill the ethanol renewable from fueling the ford model T
Major corrections: AyatuAllah Komeni DID NOT designate his son as successor, he favored Ali Khamani (who was not his son) who was voted into office of the "Supreme Leader" by the "council of the wise" ... the high authority in the State that the Supreme Leader is accountable for and which can remove the Supreme Leader from office by voting. Review the constitution, it is very clearly stated. Komeni's son died young only few years after his father.
@julienrocher1 unfortunately I don't think so. He gets too much wrong. Like Aryan and Eire. Which is not where the name comes from. It's named after Ériu a Celtic goddess. Frankly you have to check everything he says, however he is V good at entertaining.
nearly all the institutions that were supposed to oversee the supreme leader are controlled by him and Guardian council , in short , it's a broken system that has been hijacked .
There's a mixture of entertainment and education in here. There are quite a few inaccuracies and omissions, some of which are rather important. Here's one inaccuracy: the word Persia (and hence the Persian language) does not derive from Greek mythology or Perseus. It comes from the word Parsa, which was the name of one of the most prominent Aryan tribes that settled in Iran, along with other Aryan tribes such as the Medes and the Parthians. Approximately 25 centuries ago, the leader/king of the Persian tribe (Cyrus the 2nd, or Cyrus the Great) defeated the leader/king of the Medes (Astyages). Cyrus married Astyages' daughter and united the 2 kingdoms, thus Iran, the land of Aryans (meaning he land of the noble people) was born from the union of Persia and Media (sadly, Hitler has messed up the word "Aryan" in the West and has associated it with white supremacy, but that's another subject). Other Aryan tribes joined in later, including the Parthians within 2 years. Cyrus kept expanding Iran through either conquest or through alliances until his death in battle. Anyway, Persia and the Persian language have always been inherently Iranian/Aryan and have nothing to do with the Greeks. Persia and the Persian language are to Iran what England and the English language are to the UK. The Greeks made the mistake of using Persia, the name of the most prominent kingdom in Iran, to refer to the entire country. Think of how during the Cold War, many people used to say Russia when they really meant the Soviet Union. Inside Iran, people have always called their country Iran, with solid supporting records dating back to at least to the Sassanid Empire and other records attesting to the cultural and linguistic significance of the words Iran and Arya pre-dating even the Achemenids. Outside Iran, Westerners perpetuated the Greek mistake all the way to 1935, when Reza Shah ultimately had enough and made a formal request at the League of Nations that other countries stop calling Iran Persia. Oh well, it took nearly 25 centuries to correct a Greek error in the West! The key thing about Iran that is Persian to this day is the official language and the largest ethnic group in the country. Other than that, Iran has always been a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic country since its inception and Iranians are very proud of their multi-cultural and multi-ethic heritage. Another inaccuracy in your video concerns the White Revolution. The word/color "white" was used by the Shah to designate a peaceful revolution and contrast it with violent red revolutions of a communist nature. Your explanation of why they called it the white revolution is terrible. Another important omission: Mossadegh first tried to reason with the British by requesting to audit the books of the AIOC, because it was suspected they weren't even paying Iran the mere 16% they were supposed to pay! When they refused, he tried to negotiate a purchase of the oil installations and nationalize the oil industry on a basis similar to the way the UK government was nationalizing key industries at home after WW2. The British dismissed him and came up with a plot to topple him instead. That's when he was left with no other choice than asking the British diplomats to leave Iran and closed the British embassy. Another inaccuracy relates to Carter's Operation Eagle Claw to rescue the hostages. The operation didn't fail because of in-flight refueling of helicopters or 2 helicopters colliding. The operation failed because 3 of the 8 helicopters developed mechanical problems (one with a cracked rotor, one with bad hydraulics, and one flew through a sand storm damaging its engines). Upon landing in the desert and judging that the remaining 5 helicopters plus one support C-130 plane weren't enough to complete the mission, they decided to abort the mission. As they were departing to fly out of Iran, pilot error led to one helicopter colliding with the C-130 full of fuel, destroying both vehicles and killing 8 servicemen. Another inaccuracy: Rafsanjani was never prime minister, he was president from 89-97, which is the opposite of what you said. Another inaccuracy: Saddam started the Iran-Iraq war by launching his invasion on Sep 22, 1980 while Carter was President and before even the November elections. Reagan was inaugurated Jan 20, 1981. Your storytelling about Reagan telling Saddam to invade Iran is entertaining, but not factual. Saddam invaded Iran 3 months before Reagan became president. If anything, it was probably Carter who green lit Saddam, which contrasts with the image we have of Carter. Another inaccuracy: even though the US was against Iran, the US did not directly sell weapons to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. The US provided intelligence, and dual use technology to Iraq (such as helicopters or chemical weapon precursors). The bulk of Iraqi weapons were Soviet and French. Also the Swedes didn't sell Viggens to Iraq (or to anybody else than the Swedish Air Force for that matter). Anyway, there are a lot more of these small details, some with important implications. All-in-all, this is still a good video in that it will make people curious to research these events from decades ago that keep influencing our world today, but it could be made significantly better if more attention was paid to these omissions and inaccuracies.
This guy is on Arab/Vatican payroll, directly and indirectly respectively. What do you expect from him? Accuracy? He just said it himself, he refuses to call it The Persian Gulf and he's a historian? Lmao
@H.A.. I don't know about the guy's payroll situation, but I find it was a missed opportunity to make the video BOTH entertaining AND factually/historically accurate. I still give him credit for making people curious about the subject and presenting perspectives that are rarely discussed in the mainstream media. Regarding using the correct terminology "the Persian Gulf" as opposed to "the Arabian Gulf", or just "the Gulf", it's a form of historical revisionism and cultural erasure that has become prevalent in the past few decades because of the increasing influence of wealthy Arab states and the diminishing influence and wealth of Iran. Until and unless Iran reestablishes some form of political and economic stability and breaks out of its current isolation, I'm afraid that trend of historical revisionism and cultural erasure will continue unabated. Despite the video's countless inaccuracies and omissions, it was still a step in the right direction.
You have a great deal of knowledge about Iran but you may not be right about Perseus. Perseus and the Persians are not related in any way, mythically or etymologically. Their names sounding similar is just a coincidence. Perseus' name comes from the verb πέρθω, (“to destroy”) literally meaning “the destroyer”. Pars and Parsi were mentioned in Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Pars was the capital of Cyrus the Great (Kourosh). Iran is composed of many ethnic groups and Parsis are one of them. Thanks a lot for your outstanding lecturs.
The high level info is correct, the details are often outright wrong, which makes me think that Prof Casagranda is not an expert on Iranian History, just someone that read quite a bit on the topic but didn’t take enough notes while doing it…
For starters, I know of no single 19th or early 20th century British (or European) map of the Middle East where ‘Arabian Gulf’ is used for anything else than the Red Sea. The British had no rationale to abandon an 2500 old tradition until Arab nationalism emerged in the 1960s.
The first use of the term Arabian Gulf by western countries was in 1955 by Charles Belgrave to provoke Arabian nationalism in Bahrein. Use of this term by Dr. Roy Casagranda with the excuse that "the British used to call it Arabian Gulf at the time" is NOT accurate.
@rojanamjadi6281not it’s not. Persian gulf is also named by Greek first. Let’s just call it Gulf of middle. Plus there are more nations near the Gulf than Iran
It's ironic when he says that the British could no longer organize a coup because they no longer had an embassy in Tehran, and they turned to the US because they still had one. There's a joke in Latin America that goes, "Why aren't there coups in the US? Because there's no US embassy there."
LOL 😂
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The coup was planned by MI6 and CIA.
Thanks for that jocke. Gona keep that in store😁
Yeah, but according to some people there at the time, it was more about corruption and power plays in the government that caused the overthrow of Mossedegh...
pro tip - when your professor gives a lecture like this and you only have time for *one* question ask him which pub he attends after his work.
i was thinking the same thing
please leave the nice man alone
@biggringus5499 "babe they dragged me into a pub and forced me to drink those beers. I protested the whole time I assure you. "
That's a good way to potentially involve human resources in their career
Maybe he is better at drinking than history, though i doubt it. This guy is an utter failure at everything he does. that is the postmodern condition.
Who is here March 2026?
Masterclass from Roy. 🙏🥳👑
right here
Yep.
Straight to it
Me
The combination of history, storytelling, and comedy. This guy is truly a master at what he is doing. I would never ever sit and watch a 2 hours of lecture, but yet I was glued to my screen.
Totally agree
@moa3810 HOW ABOUT HIS CHRONIC COUGHING....???
I wish he was my history lecturer...
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He conviently leaves out Reagan and the CIA , Col. North involvement in flooding America with cocaine and starting the Crack epidemic in Black neighborhoods to buy weapons from Israel to give to Iran and the contras giving Cocaine for the weapons and Col. North , Poindexter and company pardons ... not a word about the drugs and other things that he omits like the phony war on drugs they were bringing into the USA to re enslave Black people because the US constitution never abolished slavery and uses the loophole to make a for profit prison industriel complex complete with wall street stock like for profit healthcare ( google Nixon HMO tapes )
It is so dramatic to see how the minor political decisions in Washington and London could change the course of history for countries and nations such as Iran and cause prolonged suffering for millions of people over generations. The saddest part is that these intervenings are still taking place in 21st century in a more complex way
There are real major clandestine operation, people are no foul even hundreds years ago.because they trust even foreigners and that what happens.just like Putin trust he got war.
It is easy to blame others for our failures!!!.
All revolutionaries in 1979 had bothered to study or read Mr. Khomeini’s book!!!
@Malibu 1978 Well, Western countries intervening in other nations is not a blame, it is a historical fact. It is a bit naive to think that the uprising of a radical anti-US leader such as Khomeini was due to the unfamiliarity of revolutionaries with his ideas. Instead, we should seek the root causes, the most important of which is the 1953 kudeta against Mosaddeq by CIA.
@Malibu-ku2to People's issues with Islamic rules is not nearly the same as why Iran has the economic situation it has right now. One of the smartest populations, insane technological and scientific achievement, the fastest country to become fully literate, all sorts of other achievements, but due to Western sanctions the country has no economic future, and people fight the government over dress codes, but that won't really make a difference for Iran's economic future. As long as the West sanctions them they are stuck. It's very sad
@user-gl8or4kb5r I didn’t say they don’t intervene. Islamic government is intervening in Arabic countries!!.
You need to have a well responsible society, we you make a mistake admit it rather blaming others, look at Singapore, Japan , South Korea . Take responsibility be your own man!!!.
It’s absolutely incredible that this lecture is from 3 years ago. It feels like he’s talking about what is happening in Iran right now. Thank you, Dr. for making these lectures available to all of us.
it's like the war today template? 😉
This video is really important to watch right now.
Yeah, topple democracy, then use the supreme leader you put there as excuse to invade the country.
really, why, hasn't the British and US always tried to keep democracy out of Iran?
@JimBo-bobobo-Bo-bo it is not about capturing, Iran is a nation with 90m+ population that will unite against Western colonizers. You cannot just bomb the government/army and expect the people to bow to you or nuke the country and expect other countries to do nothing. They did what they wanted, overthrow the democracy, and throwing the country into economic/militaristic and humanist decline.
Have you even watched the video? From the name of the agents to, dates to documents he is not just telling a story, he is providing evidence that you can look up.
why? hasn't the US and the Britz always been trying to keep democracy out of Iran?
I've marinated some chicken drumsticks for the oven, and made some chimmichuri sauce.
Let me know when you're ready.
(For the record, your still fine gorging on BBQ. Those who turn the world wild continue to do so on your behalf, and make you feel like a king while you're kids are stripped of their birthright ... you fat on our dole).
Hearing this today amid Iran’s upheaval is a reminder of how history actually unfolds. Causes are planted long before their consequences appear. When crisis arrives we focus on the moment but what we’re witnessing is only the surface of much deeper roots.
I am a Gulf War veteran it is amazing what you can learn about a war I participated in 40 years later! We must question our politicians harder before commiting our service members to offensive wars.
To late for that now. Idk how the world just goes along with all this crazy shi$ coming out of the USA mind-blowing
The key is education. And travel. What were your comrade soldiers like, everyone knew about world politics, different cultures , languages...? If the enlisting process was divided by how many 18yo with no military background Vs how many 22yo, also no military upbringing, family etc, which age group could be coerced more easily into enlisting? My wild guess is 18 year olds are way more malleable, which is what gets taken advantage of.
Do not pay attention to this guy, he knows next to nothing of history, he's just another postmodern failure trying to push their narrative. Just by the virtue of being a veteran you are a much better person than he is. He does not deserve your respect.
Thank you for your service
thank you. I wish army people refused to follow orders blindly. We would have more peaceful world if politicians new that their power is not supported by obedient army
@catnadascan you explain how and where you disagree with his "narrative"?
Yesterday I was talking to my sister about the modern history of Iran and the West’s influence in shaping it. I guess Google was eavesdropping, because this showed up in my YT feed. I enjoyed this lecture and learned a lot despite it being interrupted with 45 ads.
Ads are the fricken worst. I swear any add that I see on YT ill go out of my way not to buy from what ever company it's from. I get that ads help pay for servers/channels/ect.. but an add every 3-5 minutes is just overkill
The incredibly scary thing is -- only US viewers get "interrupted" by a trillion ads (research shows you are more likely to give up watching if the video is continually interrupted by ads). YT's US censors KNOW this is dangerous stuff you're hearing, it puts the Uniparty system in grave jeopardy. So you better not watch.
I'm watching from the periphery of the Empire in EU. I'm well past the one hour and fifteen minute mark, and have not been interrupted by one single ad. None. Nada.
I love this professor
@JesusJK7290 YT’s the one thing I have a subscription for, reluctantly, but it’s a game changer & great value, in my experience.
Get Premium. It’s definitely worth it
he smiles and tell every thing and my eyes are filled with tears. We, Iranians lost 1 milion men in that era to hunger. brits and russians cut down many trees . Thank you.
تقریبآ نیمی از جمعیت (حدود ۹ تا یازده میلیون) دو سال آخر جنگ جهانی اول بر اثر قحطی از دست دادیم و بیماریهای ناشی از آن (چون بدن ضعیف میشود)
در حالی که ایران اعلام بی طرفی کرده بود
جنگ جهانی دوم هم بی طرف بودیم اما اشغال شدیم و باز قحطی فراگیر شد 😢
Ops nothing happened
Indeed. But he is not making fun of your culture. He is just being ironic. We humans are the worst. None of this should have happened. But greed and inhumanity is what makes us do the things we do. That is what he mocks. Ive seen him speak. He finds what we do appalling. My island was taken over by the US when we were about to become independent. We are still property. All are society has become americanized. We are forgetting who we were. 120 years and some of us are still fighting for the little we still keep. Evil empires.
About 9 million s not 1 million. Approximately half Iranian population at that time
I’m afraid his style, irony as entertainment, doesn’t appeal to me. It is relentless and rather frustrating. Of course, his knowledge of the subject is huge, overflowing, but the way he communicates it is chaotic to me.
Most Americans still cannot find Iran on the map.
That's absolutely correct with even educated saying it's in the Middle East exactly like imbeciles told me Afghanis speak Arabic.. ludicrous and willfully ignorant.. fox tv aiding and abetting January 6th
Disallowed those Complacent ones.
Nobody cares where you ran. We are talking about oil here.
Iran is the heart and the world is the body..if Iran is not well the world is not well.
When the the swastika taken from Iran persia thing went wrong...look at old churches
You will see water light air earth the swastika cross with longer tail..yalda becom Christmas . Fier Erth water air...swastika of persia..it will destroy you till go back to its home land ...the land of kings.then the world shall be in peace 😊
@bigmatt4939 More like small rug - Big Mat.
Even a historian you can't change the name Persian Gulf one reason is because Persia was the power in that part of the world for over 2500 years ..
So should we call germany Nasi Germany ?
@mezenayari4590braindead, 30 yrs of rule of Nazi only
@mezenayari4590and how long was Nazi Germany a thing?😉 there you go. You’re welcome.
I'm always amazed at the knowledge and memorization historians and geographers have attained. Truly incredible.
I'm so thrilled to see many more honest assessments about Iran.
We have always been misrepresented and kinda left out of the world since that Qajar times...
Iranians just want freedom and liberty, the ruling of just and updatable laws and the opportunity for growth in science, literature, architecture and technologies, which we been great at once in a time. This land still grows Hafiz, Rumi, Ibn-Sina, and Maryam-Mirzakhanis, alas, for so long we have been oppressed and forced to bury our greats before their time comes.
I love how the man tells the history of Iran (and his other lectures) that it's like a novel. I love to come and discuss history with him as a fellow history nerd. So many topics said in this 2h video that you can create a 20 2h video lecture just to give a little more depth. Like the freaking Iranian civil war because of the constitution and other things. I didn't mention it as a negative point, but as a positive and amazing point of this lecture! Really loved it and really really want to discuss history and politics with him.
He paints with very broad strokes...he's not trying to teach a history class, he's trying to show why the Iranians might not be the biggest fans of the US.
It is like a novel; much of it is fiction.
Everybody in the world should listen to this dialog.
Basically the history repeats again.
Loved this lecture, for the longest time I wanted to see you do sth like this (I watch since 2018), grateful for spreading good information for free.
Thank you
The bits about CIA's Asia station and an actual mint in the embassy of Tehran were news to me.
Very enlightening!
As a Iranian, I am educated and have a good knowledge about history and politics, but I can't stop watching this man talking, considering the whole story is very painful for me and my country and I already know it all but as a scholar outside of Region he knows the stuff. I wish to be one of his talks. Respct
I wanted to type more or less the exact thing.
What did you think of him calling it Arabic Gulf right at the start?
And if you find this educational, then I'd be safe to assume that you don't know much about your history...Iranian here too.
@jis101I like him, but he has his flaws too!
@jis101
Historically there is no Arab Gulf!!! It is Persian Gulf!!!
@BaharJavadiA lot!
What a lecture wow! Thank you! It’s difficult to explain history and sometimes painful history in such eloquent and entertaining way.
I am so "monitoring the situation" right now
Now's a good time to revisit this lecture. Thank you Dr. Casagranda!
You were living ahead of time ;).
@andindojano, I’m just an American kid of two Iranians who escaped the revolution. We all knew what was coming.
"dr" lol!, this charlatan rots your brain. Good speaker, terrible researcher; terrible person overall.
Beautifully presented, always enjoy his lecture.
I came across dr Roy Casagranda's lecture videos a few days ago and i just can't stop watching and listening to them, the amount of clicks these videos are getting doesn't do justice at all to the quality that we're getting, i hope his lectures go viral soon. His intellect, information, humor and delivery is absolutely incredible. You can feel his love for history when he talks about it, and the way he presents each topic as well as the surrounding circumstances and information about them, which then in turn give you a perfect picture of whats going on when it all connects is absolute perfection. He's just a treasure.
I agree wholeheartedly. I think I have watched like 40 hours of his lectures this week. He makes me love history again and reminds me of one of my favorite teachers from when I was in school.
Im bingeing hard right now...
same here..
+1
There is some discrepancy on the events, but it is mostly accurate
Personally, I love the way Dr. Casagranada delivers the information. TBH, I truly believe that when I found his videos a few years ago was when my interest in history was born. I got lost in it prior, it was overwhelming and I couldn’t keep up. But, I never had it delivered this way. I grew up in a small town in Delaware, USA.
I know some people on here dislike his delivery, but different strokes for different folks. I think the ability to break that barrier and make the content reachable is true talent. No one asked, but that’s my thoughts on it. Carry on
He's a good speaker but he's flat out wrong about a couple things and yet, it was still enjoyable for me.
@HatchedC Those things matter. Being a good researcher matters. If you're wrong in axiomatic ways, nothing you say can be trusted and it taints the body of your work. This man will go down as a charlatan. Don't waste brain power on him.
@andrewevans4722 Oh I take it all with a pinch of salt but I like to read or listen to multiple people on any topic. Helps weed out the biases portrayed by them and decide for myself what I think.
Live Dr Roy Casagranda sarcasm & dry sense of humor. What a wealth of information, knowledge & captivating story teller. 🙏🙌♥️
Dr Roy's lectures are some of the most bingeable one's out there!! He's made me hooked to this!
History is one subject to be truely causious about !!! Read and listen ، but becareful what to believe !!! Because we don't hear even one side of the story !!! We can fed by a fiction without knowing that !!
💯💯💯
If this guy was my history teacher in high school I would’ve passed history because I would’ve been listening because he’s so knowledgeable
He gets paid by the governments and the corporations and globalists to do this the way they want. Not the truth. Be careful what to believe. He gets paid by foreign powers.
He gets paid by the governments and the corporations and globalists to do this the way they want. Not the truth. Be careful what to believe. He gets paid by foreign powers.
The way Dr. Roy delivers the information is very interesting. History becomes more attractive the way he describes the events.
yes because he focuses on oration instead of actual research. I bet he stands in front of a mirror instead of with his nose in the books. He is a charlatan and you're a fool to listen to this fraud.
One of the best online classes I’ve seen. This teacher just rocks. Loving the Timothy Snyder on Ukraine too but this guy’s energy is contagious and engaging.
Snyder is a British imperialist. He supports the genocide in gaza.
Such a great deep and detailed history not available anywhere else,
Thank you.
May be but he intentionally got some very obvious facts wrong- what a historian if!!
Wow, what a lecture, thank you so much, I hope the younger set appreciated all of these insights🤯🤔thank you because now things make sense. You brought the missing puzzle pieces.
Thank you very much Dr. Casagranda, it was a wonderful explanation from a foreigner's eyes and it defienetly made me sit up and take notice thanks to the new information that I've learnt in this video but i should've known long time ago. I Appriciate your efforts.
This story is wild.
Roy is an excellent teacher.
✌️
A bit confused though - he couldn’t remember Persian Gulf has been Persian Gulf for thousands of years!
The first Ethiopian defense against the Italians is a classic. I recommend it, if there is a book about it.
Thank you so much for the info that I, as an Iranian we’re not aware of. Plus thanks for caring about Iran and it’s history
چقدر گیجن ایرانی ها که این یارو دوست داره انگلیس ایرانو بخوره بعد همه ازش تشکر کردن.
brilliant .. the best youtube lecture on this topic i have seen
When a charlatan gets up on youtube and spews nonsense you believe it? Do better research, this "dr" clearly doesn't know how, he's a fraud.
With my sceptical and highly critical mind i thought i hate this...
But it turns out, my personality of always listening to all sides payed off and I could hardly critique it or feel like i was being gas lighted.
Great info, great insight, great new knowledge.
Thankyou.
Love people like this.
I have a lot of respect for the speaker, however, I've watched only 6 minutes of this video and found two major mistakes; there exists more than one map from the Persian Gulf ( by this name) that is several centuries old. Secondly, the discovery at the Masjid Sulaiman, Iran oil field represents the first oil discovery in the Middle East. William Darssi (NOT Reynolds, as most sites on Google claim), an engineer working for what is called PB now, was the first person to do it.
Most of the information on Google doesn't match the reference books.
It was a brief and clean lecture about our history… I learned a lot from it and tanks for being a help for us to find the way to achieve democracy… we know what we want the other bully’s got to understand this to… it’s our right and we will achieve our goal… Women Life Freedom ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
@jose98937 what are your examples? On which evidence are you saying this?
@jose98937 that’s your opinion and let’s agree to disagree
@jose98937 alright whatever professor… just learn when to stfu 🤫
How good of Princess Leia to attend this excellent lecture.
Absolutely brilliant! And so topical right now in June 2025! It's an absolute must-watch!
the same
i understand the sensitivity regarding the naming of the Persian Gulf but......the man talks for 2h straight, with a mind-boggling flow, a myriad small references and side notes/jokes, an immensely coherent review and analysis of events and direct/indirect results that have happened from the late 1800s until today(at the time of the lecture). Could you please look at the entire forest he is laying in front of you and stop looking at the one tree you don't approve of?
What was bothering people was him pretending that it’s not his prejudice but British history which btw was not accurate. only later in mid 1900 the name Arabian guff was brought up for the first time
I regret putting off watching this for so long; Dr. Casagranda is a wealth of knowledge.
Its my second time watching it , love hear from Dr Roy always
Yes, same. Second time because I really want to understand. Appreciative of educators whose main goal is to educate no matter who, what, why or where. Dr Casagrande is one of those educators. Extremely thankful
Awesome lecture, I am glad the RUclips algorithm reccomended to me this video. Instant sub, well done, sir !
unfortunately, this "professor" is a charlatan, despite being a good orator, he's terrible at research.
"The west got it wrong" a perfect encapsulation of the last 200+ years of political history
As an Iranian, I was in tears from the beginning to the end of this lecture, as I am aware of the ugly and bloody history of this past 150 years, masking the tremendous beauty and potential of Iran. It was mostly accurate and true
Thank you
Do you agree with the idea that the students broke in the the US embassy just in order to prove then Americans ruined Iranian democracy? How about the Islamic radicalization these students had? If they were so peaceful then why did they keep hundreds employees hostage for months? I don't agree with the professor on this
Don't feel bad. I am a US citizen and don't feel any ill will towards any Iranian citizen. My country needs to mind its own business.
ignorance is the main enemy of nations
@stick80 Why should he feel bad about it? You Americans should feel bad about it and maybe stop your awful government messing up foreign countries and end the fucking empire. How about that?
The American century is coming to an end
Thanks professor, for all your efforts and support for Iranian people. Your lecture is amazing & to a large degree quite accurate.
Its good to see the view count for this talking jumping recently :-)
This is proof that HISTORY is worth studying.
I am here. Sent this to everyone I know
thank u dr Roy i really enjoyed ur video!
Most depictions of my country are in line with historical data. Some issues are present and some factors driving each event is also missed. These include the following. It's the Persian Gulf and has always been the Persian Gulf. Saddam had plans to disintegrate Iran and saw it as a Nationalist won with a great opportunity as Iran's army collapsed. Shah of Iran was obsessed with the potential communist/socialist competition and utilised the Islamic front as a way to stabilise the Monarchy and advocated freedom of Press for this movement but it backfired. Last 10 yrs of his reign, he had portrayed a superior complex to outcompete the west and make Iran the top 5 economy. The west from then on stopped backing him.
Well said, but I find an orchestrated smear campaign against the shah in these 70 years as if he was a Dictator (and there aren't any demon dictators on this earth, haa! ) just to feed the world the required intel narrative and alienate and fragmentize Iran, which I would say has been effective so far... This gentleman's presentation is also a college-level amusement presentation. More upset I am that the whole internal and external campaigns have been successful in breaking down Iranians' pride and unity and it is a very very sad fact as I can see as a strategist. the teamwork is in sham!
Actually, it's The Gulf.
@stephenconnolly1830 if you read it right it is " Persian Gulf" !
@stephenconnolly1830 says who some typical uneducated Americo?😂
Your name is Mazdak, Khomeini if Sassanid era so I don't expect you know anything about the realities if 1979 regime change. You're simply the leftover of 1979 terrorists who occupied Iran on behalf of Anglo-Americans.
this was legitimately incredible. i learned so much about my country's history.. thank you sir. democracy for Iran.
watch what you learn bro, fact or illusion of a fact. see who that illusion serves
@jose98937 explain? Lol you can't just insert some vague sentence and leave
@PercocetPete go up the thread and read more longer answer but if you have any questions please ask. There are a lot of distorted facts showing things opposite esp about shah as a dictator. This is the narrative western system created to topple him which they did and with covered up stories to the world and khomeyni was their installed functionaries with full intl and logistic support of at least 8 counties...
I assume he means just keep a vague idea of the history. This is what we're told but be open to new truths revealed through whatever research you partake in or through world events. I'm sure you already know this tho, just a reminder. Never a bad thing :p @PercocetPete
Amazingly said sir. I wish you all the best❤
As an Iranian familiar with the matters discussed, I should mention that there were a few inaccurate things said (e.g. Rafsanjani being a prime minister) but in general this was a very interesting and above all enjoyable talk. Thank you sir, you are a "shirin sokhan" speaker!
Does that translate into Sweet speak?!.
@tryingtobetherealme4763 literally yes. It means someone who is able to use a language's potential for attraction.
@tryingtobetherealme4763yep
Another amazing lecture by an amazing man
if you want to rot your brain, yeah, great.
History is interesting..you can learn a lot from events in the past..
Thanks for the video. Some of the analysis was very interesting. However, there are inaccuracies in some of your facts and historical references.
Great timing
Such a great professor. He loves his subject matter and brings it to life.
What an amazing lecture!!!! Thank you!
really? what is amazing about it?
@jose98937 Dude, if you have a problem with anything that was presented in this lecture state your case.
Thank U Mr Casagranda
Such a fascinating lecturer🎉
Dr Roy is an AWESOME speaker/ educator
good speaker, terrible researcher and overall a charlatan
@andrewevans4722 indeed! As I wrote above, a huge distortion of history at 24:38 ! In reality, the Greeks did not invade the "Turkish" Izmir region as this professor (?) claims, nor they genocided the Turks! You see, the Turkish word "Izmir" is a paraphrase of the Greek word "Smirni"! That whole area had been Greek for thousands of years, long before the marauding Turks descended from Mongolia and militarily captured it! Even at the turn of the 20th century the majority of the population in the Smirni region was Greek! So, when the Greek army came to Smirni in 1919, they came to liberate that huge Greek population from the oppressing Turks! And they commited no genocide! On the contrary, the Turks commited three major genocides, against the Armenians, the Assyrians and the Greeks! They genocided approx. 400.000 Greeks, at Pontos and Smirni (Izmir)!
But this apparently die-hard Turko-phile professor (?) simply distorts the whole history!
Pretty sure the Ottoman Empire declined due to new trade routes by Europeans that basically cut them off. Ottomans used to be part of the Silk Road that connected all three continents, however as Europeans found a different trade route via sea to Asia and Africa they essentially cut off the Ottomans. They can now trade directly with Asia and Africa instead of going through Ottoman-controlled provinces. Also, the Europeans had a whole continent to loot and plunder with the discovery of the Americas due to their trying to find these new trade routes via sea. This basically made them outpace the Ottomans.
The main thing that caused the decline was returning to a conservative mindset just like the Chinese Ming dynasty. They became too bureaucratic, banned a lot of trade with other countries and banned the printing press. Basically Quran was all you needed. The moors and vikings had already sailed to the Americas and along Africa. Queen isabella had already this knowledge. Europe on the other hand was parting ways with serfdom.
One of those trade routes was their slave trade which the Europeans cut off and slowly degraded, particularly the Barbary States which became french protectorates when they refused to stop enslaving europeans they ended up finding themselves as a european colony.
Just watched it and it was still very useful for putting things into perspective. Thank you, prof!
I love his lectures as they are unbiased truth.
جدی؟ آنبایاسده؟ گ.ی.جی واقعا
Kinda crazy being in here now 😅
It raises goose bumps listening to this piece of history
It's Persian gulf and on all historical maps which even Brits were using it is clearly written Persian Gulf.
This is best ever lecture I have watched describing history of Iran
Amazing lecture man I learnt so much as an Iranian myself. I think I’m gonna watch some parts a second time. Thank you.
Exactly, except the “ Persian Gulf “which is unfortunately deliberately or wrongly referred to as “Arabic Gulf “ by an historian which is absolutely surprising .
It's been always Persian Gulf!
In all the history Persia was an empire!
No matter what you call it, this is an amazing lecture.
@Rabolisk Apart from the fact that it was an interesting speech. But it is very important to say the name of the place correctly. The Persian Gulf is correct and not otherwise. Persian Gulf. Please learn my friend. thank you
@Rabolisk it’s the Persian Gulf and that’s what humanity calls it, not just ourselves and if you want us to make you remember, no problem, it’s about time to teach you guys again a lesson!
این یارو فاند میگیره از عربها که جمهوری رو به مردم شیاف کنه و با زنانه مردانه کردن انقلاب مردم ایران باعث بشه که اصلا این انقلاب به نتیجه نرسه... اما اجازه نداره به همین دلیل بگه خلیج فارس
@Rabolisk This was a piece of shit, full of hidden Agenda!!!
Wonderful speech. I subscribed and shared it. I cannot stop listening and looking forward to listen more. Of course as a person who lived a big chunk of time in Iran, I might have some different opinions about doctor's comments but he is 99 percent accurate.
It was one of the greatest speech i have ever seen. Thank you Roy!
I am an Iranian, and even though I have heard and read about our recent history many times, this lecture was still an amazing and educational presentation, and I still learned a lot of interesting stuff about my country. Thank you for this awesome clip.
You are not iranian you worship the devil and this man represents lucifer
He left out Reagan and CIA flooding Black neighborhoods with drugs to buy weapons from European Jewish people in Palestine to sell at 4 times the price to buy more cocaine from the contras to Sell in Black neighborhoods and then make a war against drugs to re- enslave Black people for talking the drugs they flooded the communities with because the USA constitution allows slavery in prisons so they targeted Blacks and Hispanics although more whites use drugs than Blacks, They put crystal Ice in white communities so they could make it themselves from household products so they wouldn't spend a lot of money like the Crack they created for Blacks but it backfired because the crystal meth was worse than the Crack in the end
He is a good storyteller but oversimplifying crucial facts and repeatedly saying the Angelo American narrative is not objective history 🤔
Great story for a movie with a lot of mistakes or false claims like Khameini has designated his son as his successor! Mistakes of the past are not important, but mistake that effect the future is extremely bad. He said Reza Shah and his family was arrested? Dr. Mosadegh closed British embassy then nationalized oil? Shah left the country for medical reason then revolution succeeded? Revolution happened in Spring? President Obama never apologized for 1983 coup, he only admitted it was a mistake?Shah'order for dismissing Dr. Mosadegh was not delivered at 3 AM it was around midnight? Mob in 1953 did not make the army to overthrow Dr. Mosaddegh, Dr. Mosaddegh ordered to stop demonstration. Student captured the US embassy in order to show that in 1953 US did the coupe and asked for apology> No they wanted Shah back for trail. Iran was center of CIA operation for all of Asia? I never heard such a thing? Does he have any document to prove this? Shah for political reason married his first wife prince Foozeehe, Because of this good relations president Sadat let Shah stay in Egypt when no one wanted him? When first Shah got married Egypt was a monarchy. Sadat was nice to Shah because Shah helped Egypt financially when Egypt needed. During the war gave them free oil. Later gave a lot of money to Egypt. Mirza Koochek Khan not Mirza Koochek Shah. I do not think he was a communist. More like Robin Hood.
But dont accept such a garbage as Arabian Gulf!!! Which is neither an official name nor the historical!!!
This lecturer is amasing. He is living history book of great importance.
Never ever it was called Arabian , it called Persian Gulf for ever .
This chap has a tendency to make things up as he goes along to suit the agenda/please certain people obviously. I think he has intentionally misplaced his history books.
Trump Gulf
Really !!
This is what you got from this lecture
Awesome, we need more.
Professor I just love ❤ how you explain your history! Thank you 🙏
It’s crazy that the prohibition in the USA where they banned alcohol was only because standard oil wanted to kill the ethanol renewable from fueling the ford model T
Thats new, I heard another story why they did that
Major corrections: AyatuAllah Komeni DID NOT designate his son as successor, he favored Ali Khamani (who was not his son) who was voted into office of the "Supreme Leader" by the "council of the wise" ... the high authority in the State that the Supreme Leader is accountable for and which can remove the Supreme Leader from office by voting. Review the constitution, it is very clearly stated. Komeni's son died young only few years after his father.
I think he misspoke. He meant Khamenis son not Khomeni. I noticed he gets a little distracted at times. I am sure he knows the correct facts
@julienrocher1 Amazing memory he has.
@julienrocher1 unfortunately I don't think so. He gets too much wrong. Like Aryan and Eire. Which is not where the name comes from. It's named after Ériu a Celtic goddess. Frankly you have to check everything he says, however he is V good at entertaining.
nearly all the institutions that were supposed to oversee the supreme leader are controlled by him and Guardian council , in short , it's a broken system that has been hijacked .
@julienrocher1no sadly when it comes to Iran he’s far off
Ouaou!!! Great speech! So many Historical infos I didn't knew!
Thank you!
Thanks Dr Roy.
This was a very compacted and interesting Iranian History.
Watched it for the third time
Isn’t it cool!? 😎 thanks for the talk teach. Learned a lot 🙏🏼
Please give a lecture of Afghanistan history too
Afghanistan hisotry of being plundered by the West?
Hard to say I'm proud to be American after this
Congratulations. You’ve toppled another democratic government. This time in Pakistan in 2022 😂
Wow, havent sat through and enjoyed a long-form history lecture since college. This was a treat! Thanks for your time and effort!
This is the greatest video on the history of Iran, bravo !
There's a mixture of entertainment and education in here. There are quite a few inaccuracies and omissions, some of which are rather important. Here's one inaccuracy: the word Persia (and hence the Persian language) does not derive from Greek mythology or Perseus. It comes from the word Parsa, which was the name of one of the most prominent Aryan tribes that settled in Iran, along with other Aryan tribes such as the Medes and the Parthians. Approximately 25 centuries ago, the leader/king of the Persian tribe (Cyrus the 2nd, or Cyrus the Great) defeated the leader/king of the Medes (Astyages). Cyrus married Astyages' daughter and united the 2 kingdoms, thus Iran, the land of Aryans (meaning he land of the noble people) was born from the union of Persia and Media (sadly, Hitler has messed up the word "Aryan" in the West and has associated it with white supremacy, but that's another subject). Other Aryan tribes joined in later, including the Parthians within 2 years. Cyrus kept expanding Iran through either conquest or through alliances until his death in battle. Anyway, Persia and the Persian language have always been inherently Iranian/Aryan and have nothing to do with the Greeks. Persia and the Persian language are to Iran what England and the English language are to the UK. The Greeks made the mistake of using Persia, the name of the most prominent kingdom in Iran, to refer to the entire country. Think of how during the Cold War, many people used to say Russia when they really meant the Soviet Union. Inside Iran, people have always called their country Iran, with solid supporting records dating back to at least to the Sassanid Empire and other records attesting to the cultural and linguistic significance of the words Iran and Arya pre-dating even the Achemenids. Outside Iran, Westerners perpetuated the Greek mistake all the way to 1935, when Reza Shah ultimately had enough and made a formal request at the League of Nations that other countries stop calling Iran Persia. Oh well, it took nearly 25 centuries to correct a Greek error in the West! The key thing about Iran that is Persian to this day is the official language and the largest ethnic group in the country. Other than that, Iran has always been a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic country since its inception and Iranians are very proud of their multi-cultural and multi-ethic heritage. Another inaccuracy in your video concerns the White Revolution. The word/color "white" was used by the Shah to designate a peaceful revolution and contrast it with violent red revolutions of a communist nature. Your explanation of why they called it the white revolution is terrible. Another important omission: Mossadegh first tried to reason with the British by requesting to audit the books of the AIOC, because it was suspected they weren't even paying Iran the mere 16% they were supposed to pay! When they refused, he tried to negotiate a purchase of the oil installations and nationalize the oil industry on a basis similar to the way the UK government was nationalizing key industries at home after WW2. The British dismissed him and came up with a plot to topple him instead. That's when he was left with no other choice than asking the British diplomats to leave Iran and closed the British embassy. Another inaccuracy relates to Carter's Operation Eagle Claw to rescue the hostages. The operation didn't fail because of in-flight refueling of helicopters or 2 helicopters colliding. The operation failed because 3 of the 8 helicopters developed mechanical problems (one with a cracked rotor, one with bad hydraulics, and one flew through a sand storm damaging its engines). Upon landing in the desert and judging that the remaining 5 helicopters plus one support C-130 plane weren't enough to complete the mission, they decided to abort the mission. As they were departing to fly out of Iran, pilot error led to one helicopter colliding with the C-130 full of fuel, destroying both vehicles and killing 8 servicemen. Another inaccuracy: Rafsanjani was never prime minister, he was president from 89-97, which is the opposite of what you said. Another inaccuracy: Saddam started the Iran-Iraq war by launching his invasion on Sep 22, 1980 while Carter was President and before even the November elections. Reagan was inaugurated Jan 20, 1981. Your storytelling about Reagan telling Saddam to invade Iran is entertaining, but not factual. Saddam invaded Iran 3 months before Reagan became president. If anything, it was probably Carter who green lit Saddam, which contrasts with the image we have of Carter. Another inaccuracy: even though the US was against Iran, the US did not directly sell weapons to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. The US provided intelligence, and dual use technology to Iraq (such as helicopters or chemical weapon precursors). The bulk of Iraqi weapons were Soviet and French. Also the Swedes didn't sell Viggens to Iraq (or to anybody else than the Swedish Air Force for that matter). Anyway, there are a lot more of these small details, some with important implications. All-in-all, this is still a good video in that it will make people curious to research these events from decades ago that keep influencing our world today, but it could be made significantly better if more attention was paid to these omissions and inaccuracies.
This guy is on Arab/Vatican payroll, directly and indirectly respectively. What do you expect from him? Accuracy? He just said it himself, he refuses to call it The Persian Gulf and he's a historian? Lmao
@H.A.. I don't know about the guy's payroll situation, but I find it was a missed opportunity to make the video BOTH entertaining AND factually/historically accurate. I still give him credit for making people curious about the subject and presenting perspectives that are rarely discussed in the mainstream media. Regarding using the correct terminology "the Persian Gulf" as opposed to "the Arabian Gulf", or just "the Gulf", it's a form of historical revisionism and cultural erasure that has become prevalent in the past few decades because of the increasing influence of wealthy Arab states and the diminishing influence and wealth of Iran. Until and unless Iran reestablishes some form of political and economic stability and breaks out of its current isolation, I'm afraid that trend of historical revisionism and cultural erasure will continue unabated. Despite the video's countless inaccuracies and omissions, it was still a step in the right direction.
@kaviator agreed
Thank you Dr. Roy. Appreciate your inputs and the way you convey it. Jazakallah
You have a great deal of knowledge about Iran but you may not be right about Perseus. Perseus and the Persians are not related in any way, mythically or etymologically. Their names sounding similar is just a coincidence. Perseus' name comes from the verb πέρθω, (“to destroy”) literally meaning “the destroyer”. Pars and Parsi were mentioned in Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Pars was the capital of Cyrus the Great (Kourosh). Iran is composed of many ethnic groups and Parsis are one of them. Thanks a lot for your outstanding lecturs.
Man this guy is incredible, never seen a video with somebody teaching a 100% accurate 2 hour lesson with so much literature and knowledge 💯🙏
as an Iranian who read to much history its accurate like 65% not 100%
Exceptional teaching. God bless you, Roy for bringing light and what is going on in Middle East.
The high level info is correct, the details are often outright wrong, which makes me think that Prof Casagranda is not an expert on Iranian History, just someone that read quite a bit on the topic but didn’t take enough notes while doing it…
For starters, I know of no single 19th or early 20th century British (or European) map of the Middle East where ‘Arabian Gulf’ is used for anything else than the Red Sea. The British had no rationale to abandon an 2500 old tradition until Arab nationalism emerged in the 1960s.
The first use of the term Arabian Gulf by western countries was in 1955 by Charles Belgrave to provoke Arabian nationalism in Bahrein. Use of this term by Dr. Roy Casagranda with the excuse that "the British used to call it Arabian Gulf at the time" is NOT accurate.
Exactly.
Persian Gulf. Always has been, always will be.
@rojanamjadi6281not it’s not. Persian gulf is also named by Greek first. Let’s just call it Gulf of middle. Plus there are more nations near the Gulf than Iran
@jonnymcgrath4816 lol that's dumb af! This body of water has and always will be called the Persian Gulf!
It was always the Persian f... Gulf dude! Not anything else