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.
@user-ll3wu8os8m 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
@Malibu 1978 I believe that Islamic Republic and Russia are responsible for the current situation in Syria and also its future. Their intervening hampered all the efforts of syrian civil society to naturally evolve and move towards a democratic society. The same story applies to USA in many cases including Iran. You can not just ignore the cause and effect and the influence of external powers in imposing war and kudeta in Iran and blaming the normal people for that. With your way of argument, then the Ukrainian people are responsible for the current situation there! Right?
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 )
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.
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.
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.
To refer to the Persian Gulf, at 4:59 you used the highly disputed name "Arabian gulf". Subsequently, you brought the excuse that "At the time the Brits were using it that way", in 19th century. I believe you need to get your historical accounts revisited. The earliest official account of using "Arabian", instead of "Persian", to refer to that body of water was in 1955 by Sir Charles Belgrave, a British advisor to the ruler of Bahrain. Your excuse sounded more of an apology to use the disputed term instead of the original and historical one, "Persian Gulf".
Exactly. As I mention elsewhere, there’s plenty of British maps of the Middle East from the 19th and early 20th century in the web and one cannot find a single one that uses ‘Arabian Gulf’ instead of Persian Gulf. Until Arab countries from the Arabian peninsula emerged in the 20th century and became rich there was in fact no rationale for such a conservative people as the Brits to go against a 25 century old naming convention and starting using for the Persian Gulf a name that was in fact sometimes used for the Red Sea since antiquity.
easy dude, i do not think you know history better than him, also, the gulf is between Persia and the Arabian peninsula, so both names are equally valid, we Arabs call it the Arabian gulf, and he also can call it Arabian or Persian gulf, you cannot impose your culture on others
It’s always been and will continue to be the Persian Gulf, the name first used by the Ancient Greek. The Arabian thing is just a few decades old. In all historical and current international documents, the correct term, the Persian Empire, was and is used. All Arabic maps until the 1960s call it “Al-Kahalij Fars.” It’s funny that a bunch of newly established countries have the guts to try to change history just because they have come into some oil money. It will never happen. The reference to “imposing culture” was hilarious given the ancient culture of a country that has been around forever as a fully established country whereas… 😂
@@fandibataineh4586 It has been called Persian Gulf and there is actual documentation that it has been called that for hundreds of years. Calling a region by its actual name is not imposing culture.
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?
roy you are amazing , i am an iranian i have studied my countries history for more than 40 years. No body to date has explaine Iranian contemporary history like you are doing. Iranian people owe you a big gratitude. We are people in big crises at the moment and no help can be bigger than knowing the truth, our history and how we got here. I like to meet you and give you a big hug. Thank you ❤️
This guy is not your friend, he is providing many accurate facts and 95 percent of what he is saying is true, But his main objective is to slide in a few but VERY IMPORTANT untrue "facts" to influence and derail Iran and Iranians future, in favour of his own political agenda. He casually normalises the fake name for the Persian Gulf, calling it Arabian, and then lies about the Shah saying he was cruel, and then fakes a hero out of Mossadegh claiming he was a warrior for democracy and that the Shah was a puppet of the US. All of these things are critical to how Iranians and others see Iranian recent history and determines how they proceed. One of the biggest signs instantly recognisable is his oversimplification of everything.
The start of changing our Gulf name to money buying Arabs. Shame on you. You history is Rong. Darcy of Australia recognized surface oil in Masked Sulaiman of Iran while he was studying Nomads society. Shame on paid agents
@@zaidred2332Yeah I keep telling my compatriots that we need to change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America but I am told that we can’t do that. I need people like you in my team to change a few names in the world that I don’t agree with.
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!
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
The claim by Dr. Roy Casagranda that Persia was named after Zeus's son Perseus is not supported by mainstream historical scholarship. The widely accepted explanation is that the name Persia derives from "Pars" or "Parsa," the region in southwestern Iran which was the heartland of the Achaemenid Empire.
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!
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.
@@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
I am Sunni Muslimah. I love and admire Iran 🇮🇷 and its people. This is the greatest nation ever as it has survived and thriived despite all the odds and unjust economic sanctions.
Yeah its breathing, but hardly thriving. It is racing towards becoming the second North Korea. Educated Iranians are lining up to flee the country. The only positive is that Iranians have become atheists. Once the Ayatollahs lose power you will see a move towards secularism and democracy. We love our Arab Neighbours and hope for peace too.
As an American, I can say the citizens of the US, have nothing but respect for the citizens of Iran. Whatever political issues are between our governments and not the people.
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.
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.
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 .
Thank you very much for this remarkable lecture. I learned a lot. The speech was so amazing and Mr. Roy Casagranda really speaks with enthusiasm. Good job. Please continue about Iran history from 200 hundred years past till nowadays.
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
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.
The "white" in "White Revolution" was chosen against the two so called reactionary entities of red (the communists) and black (the Islamic clergy). The Shah used to call the clergy "black" reactionaries and the communists, the "red" reactionaries. His designation of "White Revolution" was not based on any presumed racial identity. If we look a little further, we see that it was the alliance of the "red" and the "black" that eventually brought down his monarchy.
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.
@@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 am Iranian. Thank you for being unbiased and presenting all the facts. I couldn’t find any inaccuracies in what you said it was amazing and informative.🙏🏻
As an Iranian who studied Iranian history, I was gonna write some of the misquote, but once it reached the Revolution the mixed lies and misquote just went bizarre to the extent that one had to write an essay.
As an Iranian, I really enjoyed your talk and your support. I'm not sure if it's the right place to ask you this, but do you mind if I put a Persian subtitle on this video and share it with my friends? I think it is critical for our movement to know the picture behind these events to improve our intellectual understanding. Thanks again for everything you did/do. Love, random Iranian.
I think you will have a better chance to email him directly and ask him about your request. I am positively sure that he would grant you with permission. If in case you were able to add subtitle to the video, another wonderful move you can make is to download the video and save it, thereafter using either telegram, WhatsApp to propagate it. As you know people in iran can’t get into RUclips due to the system controlling the web. In case if you were able to accomplish this novel mission, please contact me by responding right here so I can send you my telegram and WhatsApp info as I would be more than happy to circulate the video so our countrymen can find access and watch it. Best to you and I cross fingers that you can actually do this in part because iranian in iran need to know that there are massive efforts being done in their support Thanks and best of luck
I think you will have a better chance to email him directly and ask him about your request. I am positively sure that he would grant you with permission. If in case you were able to add subtitle to the video, another wonderful move you can make is to download the video and save it, thereafter using either telegram, WhatsApp to propagate it. As you know people in iran can’t get into RUclips due to the system controlling the web. In case if you were able to accomplish this novel mission, please contact me by responding right here so I can send you my telegram and WhatsApp info as I would be more than happy to circulate the video so our countrymen can find access and watch it. Best to you and I cross fingers that you can actually do this in part because iranian in iran need to know that there are massive efforts being done in their support Thanks and best of luck
In the Indian state of Karnataka women are fighting a different battlle for the right to choose, this time the right to choose what dress they should wear, against the repressive majoritarian regime in the provincial state and centre . The only difference is the women here want to wear the dress of their choice - the hijab. Both the womenkind are fighting for freedom- the right to choose
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.
Exactly, except the “ Persian Gulf “which is unfortunately deliberately or wrongly referred to as “Arabic Gulf “ by an historian which is absolutely surprising .
He failed to say that after Mossadegh nationalized Iranian oil, Iran was embargoed and was not able to sell any oil. So government was unable to pay employees, teachers, etc. And some had not been payed for months. This is why there was not as much opposition to the COUP D'ETAT, although many were killed.
LECTURE CONTAINS ERROR: Northern and Southern Azerbaijan are invented terms for territorial claims. Historically such terms did not exist and were not applied to the region. Azerbaijan is the name of the region SOUTH of the Arax river. The area NORTH of the Arax river is Armenia, Artsakh, Arran, (Caucasian)Albania, Shirvan. As for Azerbaijan, we already noted that this was a newly established country, born in 1918, and for the population of the region the name Azerbaijani was a modern misnomer and a very ambiguous one. The term ‘Azerbaijani’ was absent even from the First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union, held in December 1926. It is worthy of mention that prior to the sovietization of the Republic of Azerbaijan the country’s population included many Persians, Armenians, Russians, Jews, Iranian Azerbaijanis, remnants of the Albanian tribes, Talysh, Lezgins and the Turkic-speaking descendants of the Seljuks, Mongols and other Central Asian Turkic tribes. For many centuries the locals had been calling themselves Turks, Tatars or simply Muslims. Azerbaijan was never divided into two parts, because such as an entity never existed. When the Republic of Azerbaijan was founded in 1918 the Turkish nationalist Musavat party intentionally borrowed the name of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan. The narrative of a greater Azerbaijan that was divided during the 19th century would suit the Soviets and British as they sought to mobilize turks to break up Iran. Similar claims are being made today regarding the same region and now against Armenia as Azeris claim Armenia is "Western Azerbaijan." Fabricating history for territorial gain.
OMG, this guy is the epitome of Knowledge. He beautifully and elegantly recounts the history of this planet from 1000 years ago to the present time. What a brilliant man.
The British did in fact call it Persian gulf. There was no “arabian gulf” even in the Arabic language until the Nasserist pan-Arab takeover of the region. Next time if you refuse to call this body of water by its true historic name that every scientist has used ever since Plato and Aristotle, please do yourself a favour and stop talking about this country. Just keep speaking about the Arab world, where you actually have an expertise and clearly a bias for.
The problem with this is that I don't know much about Iranian history so I want to learn, but his little side comments about related history I am familiar with are oversimplified to the point of being basically untrue. This causes me to distrust the rest of it. It's possible I am being unfair as this is not the format to go into details, but my impression of this guy after a sample size of 1 hour is that his historical lectures are designed to be entertaining more than they are designed to be informative.
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.
I am Iranian and I really enjoyed your lecture Dr Cassagranda. Your knowledge on Iran is so elaborate and you notice historical nuances. Please give another lecture on Iran. And I think you can have many Iranian audience if only the video had a Farsi subtitle.
اولا به انگلیسی می شه پرشین نه فارسی. دوم این که چه زود جوگیر می شین تا یکی از ایران تعریف می کنه. لااقل بفهمید خوب تعریف کرده یا بد..بعدش براش غش کنید.
Eire or Ireland has been suggested to be the meaning as he says, but its generally discounted. As in no serious scholar believes that. Here is a extract for you from George Stimpsons book. "It has even been suggested that the term was derived ultimately from aryan, which is supposed to mean "farmer" or "highborn." Still another theory is that the first element in Ireland signifies "iron" and that the name literally means "iron-land." In support of this theory an "old Celtic legend" is cited to the effect that in ancient times an iron sword was buried in the heart of the island to bring good luck and to charm the land from frequent inundations from the sea. Eire, pronounced AIR-a to rhyme with Sarah, is the modern Gaelic form of Ireland. Erse, a variant of Irish, is applied to both Scotland and Ireland to the ancient Gaelic language. Thus it appears that Ireland, [page 26]Eire, Irish, Erin, Erse, Averna and Hibernia all stem from the saint." He also misses that Eire derived from the old Irish Eriu (Gaelic), Eriu was an ancient Gaelic Goddess. You have no reason to trust me, so I suggest just doing a quick search. Now, this is just one example in this video of many.
Persia is named after Perseus? The region of Pars (or Parsa) is first mentioned in ancient texts during the 9th century BCE. The earliest known reference to Pars is found in the Assyrian records of Shalmaneser III (reigned 858-824 BCE). These records mention a land called “Parsuash” or “Parsa,” located to the south of Elam. The name Parsa is also found in the inscriptions of later Assyrian kings, such as Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II, indicating the presence and importance of the region in that era. The Greeks derived the name “Persia” from “Parsa.” The term “Parsa” referred to the region inhabited by the Persians, an Indo-Iranian people who settled in the southwestern part of modern-day Iran. When the Greeks encountered the Persians, they used the name “Persis” (Περσίς) to refer to both the region and the people. This name was eventually Latinized to “Persia,” which became the common designation for the Persian Empire and its people in Western languages. The use of “Persia” persisted in the West for many centuries until the country’s official name was changed to “Iran” in 1935. There is evidence that the Greeks linked the Persians to the mythical hero Perseus. Ancient Greek historians and writers, such as Herodotus and Aeschylus, mentioned this connection. Herodotus, in his “Histories,” recounts that the Persians themselves claimed descent from Perseus. According to this myth, Perseus, a Greek hero, had a son named Perses, who was considered the ancestor of the Persian people. Aeschylus, in his play “The Persians,” also refers to this mythological connection, reinforcing the idea that the Persians were seen as descendants of Perseus. This mythological linkage was likely a way for the Greeks to explain the origins of the Persians within their own cultural and mythological framework. However, it is important to note that this connection is a part of Greek mythology and not based on historical or genealogical evidence.
Dude as an Iranian I should say you know no less than me, who was born and raised in Iran, about Iran. Aside from academic research you must have been following the news and Iranian social media too closely. I learned a lot about the history of my country from this lecture and reviewed what I experienced in Iran since the green movement. Lets hope that this time Iranians will succeed in achieving democracy.
با همه این داستان که تعریف شد، احمقتر شدی مردک . با احمقهایی مثل تو بیشتر از این انتظار ی نیست. خاک تو کله گوهی که داری، خجالت بکش از اینهمه حماقت و بیشعوری
Although being an avid movie critique for years , I have come to a point in life that anything more than 20 mins seems to bore me. However, Dr Roy and his monologue m has kept me glued for 2 hours now.
Professor went on for 2hrs breaking the last 100yrs of Iran. And all the comments are about the Persian Gulf? Man speaks for 2hr and eveyone is stuck on 1 part? Did I miss something?
While you are so accurate, the starting theme music is Arabic, not Persian. and You know it has been Persian Gulf for thousands of years, all old maps show that.
Perfect 👍👍. It is the best summary of Iran's contemporary history I have ever heard. there are many books in Iran that explain the whole story but I think the approach he has in this presentation is compatible with all detail of this story.
ویکی پدیا***ایران خانه یکی از قدیمیترین تمدنهای بزرگ پیوسته جهان است که سکونتگاههای تاریخی و شهری آن به 4000 سال قبل از میلاد برمیگردد. [ 1 ] بخش غربی فلات ایران در خاور نزدیک سنتی باستانی با عیلام (در ایلام و خوزستان )، کاسی ها (در کوهدشت )، گوتی ها (در لرستان ) و بعدها با اقوام دیگری مانند اورارتوی ها (در اشنویه و ... ) مشارکت داشت. سردشت ) در جنوب غربی دریاچه ارومیه [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] و ماناییان (در پیرانشهر ، سقز و بوکان ) در ناحیه کردنشین . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] گئورگ ویلهلم فردریش هگل ایرانیان را «نخستین مردمان تاریخی» نامید . [ 15 ] امپراتوری ایران در عصر آهن با ظهور مادها آغاز شد که ایران را به عنوان یک ملت و امپراتوری در سال 625 قبل از میلاد متحد کردند. [ 16 ] امپراتوری هخامنشی (550-330 قبل از میلاد)، که توسط کوروش کبیر تأسیس شد ، بزرگترین امپراتوری جهان بود که از بالکان تا شمال آفریقا و آسیای مرکزی را در بر می گرفت . امپراتوری های سلوکی ، اشکانی و ساسانی که تقریباً 1000 سال بر ایران حکومت کردند، جانشین آنها شدند و ایران را بار دیگر به قدرتی پیشرو تبدیل کردند. رقیب اصلی ایران در این دوران، امپراتوری روم و جانشین آن، امپراتوری بیزانس بود.
Very good talk, however: - Reza shah was hand picked by the brittish - the clergy were for the majlis and did not want a dictatorship, they were however forced into the compromise of having free elections AND a guardian (ayatollah), who in turn is appointed and can be removed by a council - because the government could easily be toppled again by the us and brittish secret service… making all the sacrifice made to free iran from imperial us, russia and britain undone..
Thank you Dr. Casagranda for the info. If I may, I have two "minor" remarks and one comment: *) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was not a president, as you mentioned, during the US negotiating the release of the Americans held at the US Embassy and the Iranian Foreign Ministry, but later, he became the fourth President. *) During the military operation of the US trying to release the held Americans by a military operation, the helicopters and the C-130s were to land at Tabas desert to have helicopters ground refueled, not arial refueled. *) With the knowledge you got to have about the long history of the US political policies, I really wonder to hear you saying that the USA and Iran might have a good "relations" in the near future! I think that the US cannot have any "good relations" with any country if it is not the dominant, and the Iranian current government cannot have any "good relations" if it is not equal.
*) The leftist radicals who stormed the US embassy in 1980 were not motivated initially with taking revenge on 1953 Coup ; They were most likely intrigued by Soviet embassy to do this as even Ahmadinejad later points out.
The father of one of my best friends in high school had been in one of the last United States mounted cavalry units. His name was Thomas Stewart and the story is retold in a book published in 2017; Elizabeth Letts The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis.
Just a minor correction that’s historically significant. @1:21 Regarding Operation Eagle Claw and the accident at Desert One. It was not a midair refueling accident. They loaded the larger, EC-130 aircraft with blivets, very large fuel bladders and they were refueling helicopters on the ground and due to vision problems, churning sand, etc., a helicopter rotor struck the vertical stabilizer of the EC-130 and another portion of the fuselage was compromised along with a fuel blivet and ensuing conflagration. If it would’ve happened in mid-air, no one would have survived that.
Professor, I urge you to consider your distinguished position as a scholar. Your commitment should be to scientific accuracy and integrity above all else. It is essential that we adhere to well-established historical and geographical nomenclature. The body of water in question is historically known as the Persian Gulf. I trust you will appreciate the importance of maintaining this accuracy in your discourse, thereby upholding the credibility of your work and respecting scientific consensus.
Greetings Prof. Roy from Abuja, Nigeria. Your lectures are such inspiration! We hear you loud n clear half way around da world. Keep up the good work, much appreciated…. Thank you sir
Thank you so much for this incredible fast-track contemporary history of Iran. As an Iranian i mostly knew about most of the historic events which you mentioned, but never anyone put them back to back so nicely like you. I definitely learned more about the history of my country. Also a great thank you for supporting the Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Hope we all can see the victory of the movement very soon. ✌️✌️✌️✌️
I like the storytelling, but as someone who lives in Iran, I gotta tell many of what he says is inaccurate. But it's a good introduction for someone who knows nothing about policy in Iran.
So many inaccuracies. For example, president Hashemi Rafsanjani was never prime minister but twice president and of course speaker of the parliament and head of the expediency council and other posts. I mention that because anybody can Google and fact check it. Dr. Casagranda is educated and informed about Iran but he conveniently aligns history to suit his narrative, ignoring a lot of important facts and factors and changing many important events, characters, etc.
درود جناب ماشین چیان. با توجه به اینکه از دنبال کنندگان شما هستم و هم دیدگاه شما در امور اقتصادی و سیاسی هستم و نظرتون برام خیلی ارزش داره، امکانش هست یکم بیشتر توضیح بدین درمورد خطا های عمده ش؟ خطاهایی مثل مقام رفسنجانی یا نام خلیج فارس که میتونن سهوی باشن زیاد اهمیت ندارن خصوصا که از طرف یک خارجی گفته بشن و محوریت لکچر نبود (به نظر من) بخشی از ماجرا هم طبیعتا جا میفته در هر لکچر یک ساعته ای درمورد تاریخ معاصر یک کشور. طبیعتا جهت گیری سیاسی این فرد تاثیرگذار هست در بیانش اما خواستم ببینم خطاهای عمده روایت ایشون از ایران کدام موارد هستند؟ منظورتون از اینکه تکه های تاریخ رو میبافه تا روایت دلخواه خودش رو ارایه بده روایت ضداستعماری ایشون هست ؟
Yeah it has many unusual mistakes, didn't mention anything about Britain role in rising reza Pahlavi to power. Made some hilarious mistakes about the current government in Iran. Including supreme leader.this made me think that he even don't bother to investigate a little, just copying what western media spreads world wide.
Seriously, I've wondered for a while why Prussia was so militaristic. Thrilled to hear the answer. I'll be listening to more of Dr. Casagrande lectures.
Great speech. There were only 2 errors to be pointed out: 1. Rafsanjani was never a prime minister. 2. Mentioning Persian gulf is not a matter of opinion or taking sides. That is the official name of that gulf, accepted and used by UNGEGN, IHO or any official organization, group or council related to this matter.
As an Iranian, this is a speech that mixes truth and false together, especially for the last part. He doesn't know exactly what is happening in IRAN and it seems all of his information comes from the media. and the most of media is biased. Right now we have two different Iran, one is what is physically in the middle east and one is what is in social media.
Dr. Casagranda, can you please talk about how the Muslims captured & ruled for 700 years & then defeated & thrown out of Al-Andalus which is currently Spain? As a result, thousands of Muslims were forced to convert to Christianity, expelled, or killed.
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.
Very interesting. Shah’s “white revolution “ was not “we are white skin now”. It was a series of reforms; the most controversial and bold one was taking lands from feudal land owners and awarding them to people who actually worked the land. The word “white” was used to proudly distinguish that from changes that would normally come from red (bloody) revolutions. People’s obsession with nose operations and hair bleaching has to do with trying to look like people in movies and fashion magazines.
Amazingly detailed and insightful lecture. Thank you for bringing light to our movement and how our previous struggles led to this moment. Slight correction: Azan from mosques is still happening but it's not 5 times a day for each Namaz but rather 3 times; Morning, Noon and Dusk.
@@TruthSeeker8834 Calm down buddy, nobody is talking about politics here. It is the Iranian culture that is left behind for 43 years, thanks to stupid religious beliefs. Running the streets cutting your forehead with a knife to simulate what happened 1400 years ago to some idiot is not the answer in 21st century. GO FETCH
@@armanGT800 R u talking about Karbala? How the Shia's cut themselves in streets cause of grief? Then i would say they r doing wrong to themselves. Nowhere in the Quran says to do this. I don’t know why shia's r hellbent of doing it. If Iranian people find themselves that some of their don't fit in 21th century, then they can change themselves. I don’t care. But i find it problematic when some foreign nation use this incident as a propaganda to topple the govt so that they can steal resources.
RACISM AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE IN ISLAM Black people to juhanam aqnd White people to janna 3.106 Abbas - Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr ‘Ibn-Abbâs (On the day of judgement (some) faces will be whitened and (some) faces will be blackened; and as for those whose faces have been blackened it will be said unto them) the angels in-charge of hell will say to them: (Disbelieved ye) in Allah (after your (profession of) belief?) in Allah. (Then taste the punishment for that ye disbelieved) in Allah. 3.106 Jalal - Al-Jalalayn The day of judgement when some faces are blackened, and some faces whitened, that is, the Day of Resurrection. As for those whose faces are blackened, these being the disbelievers, who are thrown into the Fire and to whom it is said in rebuke: ‘Did you disbelieve after you had believed, on the day the covenant was made? Then taste the chastisement for what you disbelieved!’
Yasir Qhadi just threw his own authentic scholars (al-qurtubi and al-razi) under the bus. To answer the question: Black Muslims get the fire...because they are charcoal from the left shoulder of Abraham Video - in Arabic- from Islamic books stating ‘do not shake hands with Blacks = kafer’ or ‘have sex with them and go to juhanam’. ruclips.net/video/1MxG6MUhbdI/видео.html From Encyclopaedia Britannica: proof of the enslaving of black-African in Irak by the arabs: Zanj rebellion, (AD 869-883), a black-slave revolt against the ʿAbbāsid caliphal empire. A number of Basran landowners had brought several thousand East African blacks (Zanj) into southern Iraq to drain the salt marshes east of Basra. The landowners subjected the Zanj, who generally spoke no Arabic, to heavy slave labour and provided them with only minimal subsistence. In September 869, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, a Persian claiming descent from ʿAlī, the fourth caliph, and Fāṭimah, Muḥammad’s daughter, gained the support of several slave-work crews-which could number from 500 to 5,000 men-by pointing out the injustice of their social position and promising them freedom and wealth. ʿAlī’s offers became even more attractive with his subsequent adoption of a Khārijite religious stance: anyone, even a black slave, could be elected caliph, and all non-Khārijites were infidels threatened by a holy war. Zanj forces grew rapidly in size and power, absorbing the well-trained black contingents that defected from the defeated caliphal armies, along with some disaffected local peasantry. In October 869 they defeated a Basran force, and soon afterward a Zanj capital, al-Mukhtārah (Arabic: the Chosen), was built on an inaccessible dry spot in the salt flats, surrounded by canals. The rebels gained control of southern Iraq by capturing al-Ubullah (June 870), a seaport on the Persian Gulf, and cutting communications to Basra, then seized Ahvāz in southwestern Iran. The caliphal armies, now entrusted to al-Muwaffaq, a brother of the new caliph, al-Muʿtamid (reigned 870-892), still could not cope with the rebels. The Zanj sacked Basra in September 871, and subsequently defeated al-Muwaffaq himself in April 872. Between 872 and 879, while al-Muwaffaq was occupied in eastern Iran with the expansion of the Ṣaffārids, an independent Persian dynasty, the Zanj seized Wāsiṭ (878) and established themselves in Khuzistan, Iran. In 879, however, al-Muwaffaq organized a major offensive against the black slaves. Within a year, the second Zanj city, al-Manīʿah (The Impregnable), was taken. The rebels were next expelled from Khuzistan, and, in the spring of 881, al-Muwaffaq laid siege to al-Mukhtārah from a special city built on the other side of the Tigris River. Two years later, in August 883, reinforced by Egyptian troops, al-Muwaffaq finally crushed the rebellion, conquering the city and returning to Baghdad with ʿAlī’s head. the arabs captured and bought black slaves since pre-islamic period. However, during the islam, the trades flourished enormousely till today. The European were not capturing the black slaves during the 15th century and till the 18th century themselves. The muslims traders had their connections in different areas in Africa already established. Therefore, they bought them from the muslim arabs in bulk and sold them individually in-26- the slave market in The Americas. The Europeans did not castrate the black slaves and this is how they are still visible till today. On the other hand, muslims castrated black men that they have imported to Arabia and this is why there are no blacks in the arab countries except for some in Egypt and Sudan.
By the way, Mirza Kuchak Khan did not make a separate estate as you' re mentioning here. And also he was a cleric NOT a communist! He actually did RESIST against Brits and Russians colonialism and avoid to provide them with food that they've already had taken which caused lack of food for Iranians themselves and leaded to millions of Iranians death
Couple of points: 1.Ataturk and Reza shah are contemporary, Rezashah didint know the result of the changes in Turkey, I dont think it's true to say he had him as an example to look up to. Most likely they reached the same conclusion after seeing how far behind their countries were after world war 1. 2. Most of the weapons sold to Iraq were from USSR not USA. USA, USSR and Arab counties provided the funding to buy EU and USSR weapons while Arab counties such as Egypt and Saudi arabia provided foot soldiers. One of USA's most important help was providing satellite intelligence to Iraq, monitoring Iranian movements. EU also gave pilots to Iraq while Iraqis were being trained in EU. Iran had POWs from 18 different countries. 3. EU and USA did not sell chemical weapons with missiles to Iraq directly. they provided "dual-use" tech which could have been used to produce either fertilizer or chemical weapons. USSR provided the missiles.
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.
@user-ll3wu8os8m 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
@Malibu 1978 I believe that Islamic Republic and Russia are responsible for the current situation in Syria and also its future. Their intervening hampered all the efforts of syrian civil society to naturally evolve and move towards a democratic society. The same story applies to USA in many cases including Iran. You can not just ignore the cause and effect and the influence of external powers in imposing war and kudeta in Iran and blaming the normal people for that.
With your way of argument, then the Ukrainian people are responsible for the current situation there! Right?
@@fark69 I second that
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 )
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 !!
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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.
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
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!
To refer to the Persian Gulf, at 4:59 you used the highly disputed name "Arabian gulf". Subsequently, you brought the excuse that "At the time the Brits were using it that way", in 19th century.
I believe you need to get your historical accounts revisited. The earliest official account of using "Arabian", instead of "Persian", to refer to that body of water was in 1955 by Sir Charles Belgrave, a British advisor to the ruler of Bahrain.
Your excuse sounded more of an apology to use the disputed term instead of the original and historical one, "Persian Gulf".
Exactly. As I mention elsewhere, there’s plenty of British maps of the Middle East from the 19th and early 20th century in the web and one cannot find a single one that uses ‘Arabian Gulf’ instead of Persian Gulf.
Until Arab countries from the Arabian peninsula emerged in the 20th century and became rich there was in fact no rationale for such a conservative people as the Brits to go against a 25 century old naming convention and starting using for the Persian Gulf a name that was in fact sometimes used for the Red Sea since antiquity.
easy dude, i do not think you know history better than him, also, the gulf is between Persia and the Arabian peninsula, so both names are equally valid, we Arabs call it the Arabian gulf, and he also can call it Arabian or Persian gulf, you cannot impose your culture on others
@@jingoozrajaii53 you are racist and ignorant
It’s always been and will continue to be the Persian Gulf, the name first used by the Ancient Greek. The Arabian thing is just a few decades old. In all historical and current international documents, the correct term, the Persian Empire, was and is used. All Arabic maps until the 1960s call it “Al-Kahalij Fars.” It’s funny that a bunch of newly established countries have the guts to try to change history just because they have come into some oil money. It will never happen. The reference to “imposing culture” was hilarious given the ancient culture of a country that has been around forever as a fully established country whereas… 😂
@@fandibataineh4586 It has been called Persian Gulf and there is actual documentation that it has been called that for hundreds of years. Calling a region by its actual name is not imposing culture.
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
roy you are amazing , i am an iranian i have studied my countries history for more than 40 years. No body to date has explaine Iranian contemporary history like you are doing. Iranian people owe you a big gratitude. We are people in big crises at the moment and no help can be bigger than knowing the truth, our history and how we got here. I like to meet you and give you a big hug.
Thank you ❤️
As usual, his style of jocularity impresses those who forget that he remains blinded by his country's crimes against humanity.
@@homayounshirazi9550 white euro centrist creatures talking about humanity. Contradiction interms.
Negative.
This guy is not your friend, he is providing many accurate facts and 95 percent of what he is saying is true, But his main objective is to slide in a few but VERY IMPORTANT untrue "facts" to influence and derail Iran and Iranians future, in favour of his own political agenda. He casually normalises the fake name for the Persian Gulf, calling it Arabian, and then lies about the Shah saying he was cruel, and then fakes a hero out of Mossadegh claiming he was a warrior for democracy and that the Shah was a puppet of the US. All of these things are critical to how Iranians and others see Iranian recent history and determines how they proceed. One of the biggest signs instantly recognisable is his oversimplification of everything.
The start of changing our Gulf name to money buying Arabs. Shame on you. You history is Rong. Darcy of Australia recognized surface oil in Masked Sulaiman of Iran while he was studying Nomads society. Shame on paid agents
It’s the Persian Gulf. It always has and it always will be.
A body of water can have two names depending on which side are you looking at it from
@@zaidred2332Yeah I keep telling my compatriots that we need to change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America but I am told that we can’t do that. I need people like you in my team to change a few names in the world that I don’t agree with.
Hahaha! Nationalist I think
@@zaidred2332Cool then the Arabian sea is now sea of Hunpty Dumpty despire thousands of years of maps and referencing.
unless the professor is funded by arabs!!! Then it becomes A Ra b . ian gulf
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%
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.
Search on RUclips . ' What the Media Won't Tell You about Iran . '
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?😂
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
The claim by Dr. Roy Casagranda that Persia was named after Zeus's son Perseus is not supported by mainstream historical scholarship. The widely accepted explanation is that the name Persia derives from "Pars" or "Parsa," the region in southwestern Iran which was the heartland of the Achaemenid Empire.
He's an absolute hack.
@@kusha010 absolutely correct you are. Occidentalist historians are what they are.
He stipulated “According to the Greeks”
@@gregorymilla9213 Yes, but when he doesn't mention the widely held view i mentioned he is in fact siding with Greek view..
@@kusha010 the use of the phrase “ according to the Greeks “ implies there are other views as to the origin of the name Persia .
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.
Thanks professor, for all your efforts and support for Iranian people. Your lecture is amazing & to a large degree quite accurate.
This is the greatest video on the history of Iran, bravo !
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!!!
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!!!
When you were in school , what name did your teacher use ? Persian Golf OR Arabian Golf ?
Arabian gulf
He is a spy Making up lies
@@fakhrerazinikkhah3138 depends on where you stood.
@@مرادعلمدار-ع5ت8ر but history and map says Persian Gulf
@@مرادعلمدار-ع5ت8رsorry couldn’t find on map, Arabian gulf? Is that on planet earth pal?😉
What a lecture wow! Thank you! It’s difficult to explain history and sometimes painful history in such eloquent and entertaining way.
I am Sunni Muslimah. I love and admire Iran 🇮🇷 and its people. This is the greatest nation ever as it has survived and thriived despite all the odds and unjust economic sanctions.
Thank you brother, I m shiat but I also love my Sunni brothers . One Ummah!
Yeah its breathing, but hardly thriving. It is racing towards becoming the second North Korea. Educated Iranians are lining up to flee the country. The only positive is that Iranians have become atheists. Once the Ayatollahs lose power you will see a move towards secularism and democracy. We love our Arab Neighbours and hope for peace too.
As an American, I can say the citizens of the US, have nothing but respect for the citizens of Iran. Whatever political issues are between our governments and not the people.
Wow. So much claims, i can just say that majority of them are incorrect@@andiofski2653
@@andiofski2653what a weird comment. And isn't it nice that some people can live in their hypothetical world like this? Good luck with it
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.
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.
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
Thank you very much for this remarkable lecture. I learned a lot. The speech was so amazing and Mr. Roy Casagranda really speaks with enthusiasm.
Good job. Please continue about Iran history from 200 hundred years past till nowadays.
Haha this didn't age well. nice try by the pathetic Zionist "doctor" to spread misinformation
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
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.
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The "white" in "White Revolution" was chosen against the two so called reactionary entities of red (the communists) and black (the Islamic clergy). The Shah used to call the clergy "black" reactionaries and the communists, the "red" reactionaries. His designation of "White Revolution" was not based on any presumed racial identity. If we look a little further, we see that it was the alliance of the "red" and the "black" that eventually brought down his monarchy.
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.
Good lecture. But one correction here: People of Azerbaijan are not Turks, they are Iranians whose language is Turkish.
Azerbaijan is ethnically Turkic by majority. He is correct
@@dil_rain No, he is not! Read scholars like Ahmad Kasravi to find out!
Iranian does not mean Persian
It’s a mixed region as is all of Iran. Mixed with Kurds, Turkic, Persian, etc. There are def Turkic people’s there as well as others.
Bullocks
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...
brilliant .. the best youtube lecture on this topic i have seen
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I am Iranian. Thank you for being unbiased and presenting all the facts. I couldn’t find any inaccuracies in what you said
it was amazing and informative.🙏🏻
As an Iranian who studied Iranian history, I was gonna write some of the misquote, but once it reached the Revolution the mixed lies and misquote just went bizarre to the extent that one had to write an essay.
As an Iranian, I really enjoyed your talk and your support. I'm not sure if it's the right place to ask you this, but do you mind if I put a Persian subtitle on this video and share it with my friends? I think it is critical for our movement to know the picture behind these events to improve our intellectual understanding. Thanks again for everything you did/do. Love, random Iranian.
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Please let me know if you did that.
I think you will have a better chance to email him directly and ask him about your request. I am positively sure that he would grant you with permission.
If in case you were able to add subtitle to the video, another wonderful move you can make is to download the video and save it, thereafter using either telegram, WhatsApp to propagate it. As you know people in iran can’t get into RUclips due to the system controlling the web.
In case if you were able to accomplish this novel mission, please contact me by responding right here so I can send you my telegram and WhatsApp info as I would be more than happy to circulate the video so our countrymen can find access and watch it. Best to you and I cross fingers that you can actually do this in part because iranian in iran need to know that there are massive efforts being done in their support
Thanks and best of luck
I think you will have a better chance to email him directly and ask him about your request. I am positively sure that he would grant you with permission.
If in case you were able to add subtitle to the video, another wonderful move you can make is to download the video and save it, thereafter using either telegram, WhatsApp to propagate it. As you know people in iran can’t get into RUclips due to the system controlling the web.
In case if you were able to accomplish this novel mission, please contact me by responding right here so I can send you my telegram and WhatsApp info as I would be more than happy to circulate the video so our countrymen can find access and watch it. Best to you and I cross fingers that you can actually do this in part because iranian in iran need to know that there are massive efforts being done in their support
Thanks and best of luck
@@gmailaccount301 A.G.vs P.G.??? I’m sorry, what’s this?
In the Indian state of Karnataka women are fighting a different battlle for the right to choose, this time the right to choose what dress they should wear, against the repressive majoritarian regime in the provincial state and centre . The only difference is the women here want to wear the dress of their choice - the hijab. Both the womenkind are fighting for freedom- the right to choose
Mr. Cassagranda I am a great admirer of your studies I wish you best. Regards from Istanbul.
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.
It was one of the greatest speech i have ever seen. Thank you Roy!
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 .
Beautifully presented, always enjoy his lecture.
He failed to say that after Mossadegh nationalized Iranian oil, Iran was embargoed and was not able to sell any oil. So government was unable to pay employees, teachers, etc. And some had not been payed for months. This is why there was not as much opposition to the COUP D'ETAT, although many were killed.
I watch all your videos your the most charismatic professor that walked the earth
LECTURE CONTAINS ERROR: Northern and Southern Azerbaijan are invented terms for territorial claims. Historically such terms did not exist and were not applied to the region. Azerbaijan is the name of the region SOUTH of the Arax river. The area NORTH of the Arax river is Armenia, Artsakh, Arran, (Caucasian)Albania, Shirvan. As for Azerbaijan, we already noted that this was a newly established country, born in 1918, and for the population of the region the name Azerbaijani was a modern misnomer and a very ambiguous one. The term ‘Azerbaijani’ was absent even from the First All-Union Census of the Soviet Union, held in December 1926. It is worthy of mention that prior to the sovietization of the Republic of Azerbaijan the country’s population included many Persians, Armenians, Russians, Jews, Iranian Azerbaijanis, remnants of the Albanian tribes, Talysh, Lezgins and the Turkic-speaking descendants of the Seljuks, Mongols and other Central Asian Turkic tribes. For many centuries the locals had been calling themselves Turks, Tatars or simply Muslims. Azerbaijan was never divided into two parts, because such as an entity never existed. When the Republic of Azerbaijan was founded in 1918 the Turkish nationalist Musavat party intentionally borrowed the name of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan. The narrative of a greater Azerbaijan that was divided during the 19th century would suit the Soviets and British as they sought to mobilize turks to break up Iran. Similar claims are being made today regarding the same region and now against Armenia as Azeris claim Armenia is "Western Azerbaijan." Fabricating history for territorial gain.
Thanks Dr Roy.
This was a very compacted and interesting Iranian History.
Talking about a history and refusing to say
PERSIAN GULF ?!!🤦
It’s not history, it’s Political history = fake history
check my other comments... this guy is full of shit and his speech is filled with hidden Agendas.
It is very natural as he is a Leftist🤣🤣
خفه شو این همه حرف زد یه سوراخ پیدا کردی کسشعر بگی گه خور
And worse, he gave the excuse that the Brits called it that way!
I absolutely love his lectures, he is so knowledgeable and factual and on the top he delivers so well and captivating!
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.
OMG, this guy is the epitome of Knowledge. He beautifully and elegantly recounts the history of this planet from 1000 years ago to the present time. What a brilliant man.
The British did in fact call it Persian gulf. There was no “arabian gulf” even in the Arabic language until the Nasserist pan-Arab takeover of the region. Next time if you refuse to call this body of water by its true historic name that every scientist has used ever since Plato and Aristotle, please do yourself a favour and stop talking about this country. Just keep speaking about the Arab world, where you actually have an expertise and clearly a bias for.
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 ..
Hard to say I'm proud to be American after this
Congratulations. You’ve toppled another democratic government. This time in Pakistan in 2022 😂
The problem with this is that I don't know much about Iranian history so I want to learn, but his little side comments about related history I am familiar with are oversimplified to the point of being basically untrue. This causes me to distrust the rest of it. It's possible I am being unfair as this is not the format to go into details, but my impression of this guy after a sample size of 1 hour is that his historical lectures are designed to be entertaining more than they are designed to be informative.
Another amazing lecture by an amazing man
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.
I am Iranian and I really enjoyed your lecture Dr Cassagranda. Your knowledge on Iran is so elaborate and you notice historical nuances. Please give another lecture on Iran. And I think you can have many Iranian audience if only the video had a Farsi subtitle.
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این آقا پان عرب است! خلیجه همیشه فار!
@@Phraates90 شما بعد ادیت کردن هم هنوز فارس رو فار نوشتی.
اولا به انگلیسی می شه پرشین نه فارسی. دوم این که چه زود جوگیر می شین تا یکی از ایران تعریف می کنه. لااقل بفهمید خوب تعریف کرده یا بد..بعدش براش غش کنید.
🤦♂
i watched like 3 of this person's lectures in 2 days lol. its so entertaining and informative
Eire or Ireland has been suggested to be the meaning as he says, but its generally discounted. As in no serious scholar believes that. Here is a extract for you from George Stimpsons book.
"It has even been suggested that the term was derived ultimately from aryan, which is supposed to mean "farmer" or "highborn." Still another theory is that the first element in Ireland signifies "iron" and that the name literally means "iron-land." In support of this theory an "old Celtic legend" is cited to the effect that in ancient times an iron sword was buried in the heart of the island to bring good luck and to charm the land from frequent inundations from the sea. Eire, pronounced AIR-a to rhyme with Sarah, is the modern Gaelic form of Ireland. Erse, a variant of Irish, is applied to both Scotland and Ireland to the ancient Gaelic language. Thus it appears that Ireland, [page 26]Eire, Irish, Erin, Erse, Averna and Hibernia all stem from the saint."
He also misses that Eire derived from the old Irish Eriu (Gaelic), Eriu was an ancient Gaelic Goddess.
You have no reason to trust me, so I suggest just doing a quick search. Now, this is just one example in this video of many.
Through history it has always been and called Persian Gulf, brittis have always been the element of divide and concour
Persia is named after Perseus?
The region of Pars (or Parsa) is first mentioned in ancient texts during the 9th century BCE. The earliest known reference to Pars is found in the Assyrian records of Shalmaneser III (reigned 858-824 BCE). These records mention a land called “Parsuash” or “Parsa,” located to the south of Elam. The name Parsa is also found in the inscriptions of later Assyrian kings, such as Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II, indicating the presence and importance of the region in that era.
The Greeks derived the name “Persia” from “Parsa.” The term “Parsa” referred to the region inhabited by the Persians, an Indo-Iranian people who settled in the southwestern part of modern-day Iran. When the Greeks encountered the Persians, they used the name “Persis” (Περσίς) to refer to both the region and the people. This name was eventually Latinized to “Persia,” which became the common designation for the Persian Empire and its people in Western languages. The use of “Persia” persisted in the West for many centuries until the country’s official name was changed to “Iran” in 1935.
There is evidence that the Greeks linked the Persians to the mythical hero Perseus. Ancient Greek historians and writers, such as Herodotus and Aeschylus, mentioned this connection. Herodotus, in his “Histories,” recounts that the Persians themselves claimed descent from Perseus. According to this myth, Perseus, a Greek hero, had a son named Perses, who was considered the ancestor of the Persian people.
Aeschylus, in his play “The Persians,” also refers to this mythological connection, reinforcing the idea that the Persians were seen as descendants of Perseus. This mythological linkage was likely a way for the Greeks to explain the origins of the Persians within their own cultural and mythological framework. However, it is important to note that this connection is a part of Greek mythology and not based on historical or genealogical evidence.
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.
Dude as an Iranian I should say you know no less than me, who was born and raised in Iran, about Iran. Aside from academic research you must have been following the news and Iranian social media too closely. I learned a lot about the history of my country from this lecture and reviewed what I experienced in Iran since the green movement. Lets hope that this time Iranians will succeed in achieving democracy.
Like when the US brought democracy to Iraq? Or Afghanistan?
Democracy is overrated
با همه این داستان که تعریف شد، احمقتر شدی مردک . با احمقهایی مثل تو بیشتر از این انتظار ی نیست. خاک تو کله گوهی که داری، خجالت بکش از اینهمه حماقت و بیشعوری
It's Persian Golf
Gulf!
Its arab culf
Although being an avid movie critique for years , I have come to a point in life that anything more than 20 mins seems to bore me. However, Dr Roy and his monologue m has kept me glued for 2 hours now.
Professor went on for 2hrs breaking the last 100yrs of Iran.
And all the comments are about the Persian Gulf? Man speaks for 2hr and eveyone is stuck on 1 part? Did I miss something?
While you are so accurate, the starting theme music is Arabic, not Persian. and You know it has been Persian Gulf for thousands of years, all old maps show that.
Loved the session as usual
Are you sure Germany is a new country and at the time Persian Gulf was called another name? Exactly what sources did you read PROF?
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Perfect 👍👍. It is the best summary of Iran's contemporary history I have ever heard. there are many books in Iran that explain the whole story but I think the approach he has in this presentation is compatible with all detail of this story.
ویکی پدیا***ایران خانه یکی از قدیمیترین تمدنهای بزرگ پیوسته جهان است که سکونتگاههای تاریخی و شهری آن به 4000 سال قبل از میلاد برمیگردد. [ 1 ] بخش غربی فلات ایران در خاور نزدیک سنتی باستانی با عیلام (در ایلام و خوزستان )، کاسی ها (در کوهدشت )، گوتی ها (در لرستان ) و بعدها با اقوام دیگری مانند اورارتوی ها (در اشنویه و ... ) مشارکت داشت. سردشت ) در جنوب غربی دریاچه ارومیه [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] و ماناییان (در پیرانشهر ، سقز و بوکان ) در ناحیه کردنشین . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] گئورگ ویلهلم فردریش هگل ایرانیان را «نخستین مردمان تاریخی» نامید . [ 15 ] امپراتوری ایران در عصر آهن با ظهور مادها آغاز شد که ایران را به عنوان یک ملت و امپراتوری در سال 625 قبل از میلاد متحد کردند. [ 16 ] امپراتوری هخامنشی (550-330 قبل از میلاد)، که توسط کوروش کبیر تأسیس شد ، بزرگترین امپراتوری جهان بود که از بالکان تا شمال آفریقا و آسیای مرکزی را در بر می گرفت . امپراتوری های سلوکی ، اشکانی و ساسانی که تقریباً 1000 سال بر ایران حکومت کردند، جانشین آنها شدند و ایران را بار دیگر به قدرتی پیشرو تبدیل کردند. رقیب اصلی ایران در این دوران، امپراتوری روم و جانشین آن، امپراتوری بیزانس بود.
Very good talk, however:
- Reza shah was hand picked by the brittish
- the clergy were for the majlis and did not want a dictatorship, they were however forced into the compromise of having free elections AND a guardian (ayatollah), who in turn is appointed and can be removed by a council - because the government could easily be toppled again by the us and brittish secret service… making all the sacrifice made to free iran from imperial us, russia and britain undone..
Very well started and very well terminated the history. Tremendous lecturer. I love it. ❤️
Thank you Dr. Casagranda for the info. If I may, I have two "minor" remarks and one comment:
*) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was not a president, as you mentioned, during the US negotiating the release of the Americans held at the US Embassy and the Iranian Foreign Ministry, but later, he became the fourth President.
*) During the military operation of the US trying to release the held Americans by a military operation, the helicopters and the C-130s were to land at Tabas desert to have helicopters ground refueled, not arial refueled.
*) With the knowledge you got to have about the long history of the US political policies, I really wonder to hear you saying that the USA and Iran might have a good "relations" in the near future! I think that the US cannot have any "good relations" with any country if it is not the dominant, and the Iranian current government cannot have any "good relations" if it is not equal.
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*) The leftist radicals who stormed the US embassy in 1980 were not motivated initially with taking revenge on 1953 Coup ; They were most likely intrigued by Soviet embassy to do this as even Ahmadinejad later points out.
Iran’s current “regime” is not going to last long.
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Dr.Roy, you rock . I'm a fan as of now. You explain elequently the whole deal with Iran in almost 2 hours.
The father of one of my best friends in high school had been in one of the last United States mounted cavalry units. His name was Thomas Stewart and the story is retold in a book published in 2017; Elizabeth Letts
The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis.
Just a minor correction that’s historically significant. @1:21 Regarding Operation Eagle Claw and the accident at Desert One. It was not a midair refueling accident.
They loaded the larger, EC-130 aircraft with blivets, very large fuel bladders and they were refueling helicopters on the ground and due to vision problems, churning sand, etc., a helicopter rotor struck the vertical stabilizer of the EC-130 and another portion of the fuselage was compromised along with a fuel blivet and ensuing conflagration.
If it would’ve happened in mid-air, no one would have survived that.
Professor, I urge you to consider your distinguished position as a scholar. Your commitment should be to scientific accuracy and integrity above all else. It is essential that we adhere to well-established historical and geographical nomenclature. The body of water in question is historically known as the Persian Gulf. I trust you will appreciate the importance of maintaining this accuracy in your discourse, thereby upholding the credibility of your work and respecting scientific consensus.
Greetings Prof. Roy from Abuja, Nigeria. Your lectures are such inspiration! We hear you loud n clear half way around da world. Keep up the good work, much appreciated…. Thank you sir
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Thank you so much for this incredible fast-track contemporary history of Iran. As an Iranian i mostly knew about most of the historic events which you mentioned, but never anyone put them back to back so nicely like you. I definitely learned more about the history of my country.
Also a great thank you for supporting the Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom movement. Hope we all can see the victory of the movement very soon. ✌️✌️✌️✌️
Ooops I made the last comment before that section came up. Thank you for your lecture, I loved / love it Ivan
I like the storytelling, but as someone who lives in Iran, I gotta tell many of what he says is inaccurate. But it's a good introduction for someone who knows nothing about policy in Iran.
So many inaccuracies. For example, president Hashemi Rafsanjani was never prime minister but twice president and of course speaker of the parliament and head of the expediency council and other posts. I mention that because anybody can Google and fact check it.
Dr. Casagranda is educated and informed about Iran but he conveniently aligns history to suit his narrative, ignoring a lot of important facts and factors and changing many important events, characters, etc.
point out the major ones then.... he was still a bureaucrat
درود جناب ماشین چیان. با توجه به اینکه از دنبال کنندگان شما هستم و هم دیدگاه شما در امور اقتصادی و سیاسی هستم و نظرتون برام خیلی ارزش داره، امکانش هست یکم بیشتر توضیح بدین درمورد خطا های عمده ش؟
خطاهایی مثل مقام رفسنجانی یا نام خلیج فارس که میتونن سهوی باشن زیاد اهمیت ندارن خصوصا که از طرف یک خارجی گفته بشن و محوریت لکچر نبود (به نظر من)
بخشی از ماجرا هم طبیعتا جا میفته در هر لکچر یک ساعته ای درمورد تاریخ معاصر یک کشور. طبیعتا جهت گیری سیاسی این فرد تاثیرگذار هست در بیانش اما خواستم ببینم خطاهای عمده روایت ایشون از ایران کدام موارد هستند؟ منظورتون از اینکه تکه های تاریخ رو میبافه تا روایت دلخواه خودش رو ارایه بده روایت ضداستعماری ایشون هست ؟
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Khamenei & Khomeini are two different surnames. These two people have no blood relation. That was a very unusual mistake!
There are several major mistakes here. This guy is not a good source of I could find so many factual errors in the first hour alone...
@@int0x2eplease list the major mistakes you are talking about.
@@int0x2e where are these major mistakes ???
Yeah it has many unusual mistakes, didn't mention anything about Britain role in rising reza Pahlavi to power. Made some hilarious mistakes about the current government in Iran. Including supreme leader.this made me think that he even don't bother to investigate a little, just copying what western media spreads world wide.
That is Persian Gulf! Where did you get that made-up name from?
He is graduated from McDonald’s
Seriously, I've wondered for a while why Prussia was so militaristic. Thrilled to hear the answer. I'll be listening to more of Dr. Casagrande lectures.
Great speech. There were only 2 errors to be pointed out:
1. Rafsanjani was never a prime minister.
2. Mentioning Persian gulf is not a matter of opinion or taking sides. That is the official name of that gulf, accepted and used by UNGEGN, IHO or any official organization, group or council related to this matter.
Thanks for telling the history such comprehensively and simply put in the word that everyone can understand it .
Sir i hope u will post regularly..
Your lectures are very knowledgeable.
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩❤️
As an Iranian, this is a speech that mixes truth and false together, especially for the last part. He doesn't know exactly what is happening in IRAN and it seems all of his information comes from the media. and the most of media is biased. Right now we have two different Iran, one is what is physically in the middle east and one is what is in social media.
I'm only half hour into the lecture and I'm not an expert on Iran (but I know some world History) and yes, he mixes truth and false claims...
Dr. Casagranda, can you please talk about how the Muslims captured & ruled for 700 years & then defeated & thrown out of Al-Andalus which is currently Spain? As a result, thousands of Muslims were forced to convert to Christianity, expelled, or killed.
Thank you for more complete history. It's so hard to get people to learn facts instead of spin.
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.
Very interesting. Shah’s “white revolution “ was not “we are white skin now”. It was a series of reforms; the most controversial and bold one was taking lands from feudal land owners and awarding them to people who actually worked the land. The word “white” was used to proudly distinguish that from changes that would normally come from red (bloody) revolutions. People’s obsession with nose operations and hair bleaching has to do with trying to look like people in movies and fashion magazines.
Dr Casagranda knows a lot but sometimes his wokeness beats him
Amazingly detailed and insightful lecture. Thank you for bringing light to our movement and how our previous struggles led to this moment. Slight correction: Azan from mosques is still happening but it's not 5 times a day for each Namaz but rather 3 times; Morning, Noon and Dusk.
That is because most Shia combine the Asr and Magrib namaz with the Zohor and Isha, respectively! So the Azan is happening.
so your take from an almost two hour lecture on Iran history is the number of times call to prayer is done??? No wonder Iran doesn't move forward.
@@armanGT800 move forward with what? Another coup?
@@TruthSeeker8834 Calm down buddy, nobody is talking about politics here. It is the Iranian culture that is left behind for 43 years, thanks to stupid religious beliefs. Running the streets cutting your forehead with a knife to simulate what happened 1400 years ago to some idiot is not the answer in 21st century. GO FETCH
@@armanGT800 R u talking about Karbala? How the Shia's cut themselves in streets cause of grief? Then i would say they r doing wrong to themselves. Nowhere in the Quran says to do this. I don’t know why shia's r hellbent of doing it.
If Iranian people find themselves that some of their don't fit in 21th century, then they can change themselves. I don’t care. But i find it problematic when some foreign nation use this incident as a propaganda to topple the govt so that they can steal resources.
Never had anyone explain it so clearly before. Thank you Sir 🙏🏻💝
Such a great speech. Thank you so much Dr. Roy Casagranda.
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.
Just started following you, I love your ability to connect philosophy with politics and history. I am a fan.
RACISM AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE IN ISLAM
Black people to juhanam aqnd White people to janna
3.106 Abbas - Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr ‘Ibn-Abbâs
(On the day of judgement (some) faces will be whitened and (some) faces will be blackened; and as for those whose faces have been blackened it will be said unto them) the angels in-charge of hell will say to them: (Disbelieved ye) in Allah (after your (profession of) belief?) in Allah. (Then taste the punishment for that ye disbelieved) in Allah.
3.106 Jalal - Al-Jalalayn The day of judgement when some faces are blackened, and some faces whitened, that is, the Day of Resurrection. As for those whose faces are blackened, these being the disbelievers, who are thrown into the Fire and to whom it is said in rebuke: ‘Did you disbelieve after you had believed, on the day the covenant was made? Then taste the chastisement for what you disbelieved!’
Yasir Qhadi just threw his own authentic scholars (al-qurtubi and al-razi) under the bus. To answer the question: Black Muslims get the fire...because they are charcoal from the left shoulder of Abraham
Video - in Arabic- from Islamic books stating ‘do not shake hands with Blacks = kafer’ or ‘have sex with them and go to juhanam’.
ruclips.net/video/1MxG6MUhbdI/видео.html
From Encyclopaedia Britannica: proof of the enslaving of black-African in Irak by the arabs:
Zanj rebellion, (AD 869-883), a black-slave revolt against the ʿAbbāsid caliphal empire. A number of Basran landowners had brought several thousand East African blacks (Zanj) into southern Iraq to drain the salt marshes east of Basra. The landowners subjected the Zanj, who generally spoke no Arabic, to heavy slave labour and provided them with only minimal subsistence. In September 869, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, a Persian claiming descent from ʿAlī, the fourth caliph, and Fāṭimah, Muḥammad’s daughter, gained the support of several slave-work crews-which could number from 500 to 5,000 men-by pointing out the injustice of their social position and promising them freedom and wealth. ʿAlī’s offers became even more attractive with his subsequent adoption of a Khārijite religious stance: anyone, even a black slave, could be elected caliph, and all non-Khārijites were infidels threatened by a holy war.
Zanj forces grew rapidly in size and power, absorbing the well-trained black contingents that defected from the defeated caliphal armies, along with some disaffected local peasantry. In October 869 they defeated a Basran force, and soon afterward a Zanj capital, al-Mukhtārah (Arabic: the Chosen), was built on an inaccessible dry spot in the salt flats, surrounded by canals. The rebels gained control of southern Iraq by capturing al-Ubullah (June 870), a seaport on the Persian Gulf, and cutting communications to Basra, then seized Ahvāz in southwestern Iran. The caliphal armies, now entrusted to al-Muwaffaq, a brother of the new caliph, al-Muʿtamid (reigned 870-892), still could not cope with the rebels. The Zanj sacked Basra in September 871, and subsequently defeated al-Muwaffaq himself in April 872.
Between 872 and 879, while al-Muwaffaq was occupied in eastern Iran with the expansion of the Ṣaffārids, an independent Persian dynasty, the Zanj seized Wāsiṭ (878) and established themselves in Khuzistan, Iran. In 879, however, al-Muwaffaq organized a major offensive against the black slaves. Within a year, the second Zanj city, al-Manīʿah (The Impregnable), was taken. The rebels were next expelled from Khuzistan, and, in the spring of 881, al-Muwaffaq laid siege to al-Mukhtārah from a special city built on the other side of the Tigris River. Two years later, in August 883, reinforced by Egyptian troops, al-Muwaffaq finally crushed the rebellion, conquering the city and returning to Baghdad with ʿAlī’s head.
the arabs captured and bought black slaves since pre-islamic period. However, during the islam, the trades flourished enormousely till today. The European were not capturing the black slaves during the 15th century and till the 18th century themselves. The muslims traders had their connections in different areas in Africa already established. Therefore, they bought them from the muslim arabs in bulk and sold them individually in-26-
the slave market in The Americas. The Europeans did not castrate the black slaves and this is how they are still visible till today. On the other hand, muslims castrated black men that they have imported to Arabia and this is why there are no blacks in the arab countries except for some in Egypt and Sudan.
By the way, Mirza Kuchak Khan did not make a separate estate as you' re mentioning here. And also he was a cleric NOT a communist! He actually did RESIST against Brits and Russians colonialism and avoid to provide them with food that they've already had taken which caused lack of food for Iranians themselves and leaded to millions of Iranians death
Couple of points:
1.Ataturk and Reza shah are contemporary, Rezashah didint know the result of the changes in Turkey, I dont think it's true to say he had him as an example to look up to. Most likely they reached the same conclusion after seeing how far behind their countries were after world war 1.
2. Most of the weapons sold to Iraq were from USSR not USA. USA, USSR and Arab counties provided the funding to buy EU and USSR weapons while Arab counties such as Egypt and Saudi arabia provided foot soldiers. One of USA's most important help was providing satellite intelligence to Iraq, monitoring Iranian movements. EU also gave pilots to Iraq while Iraqis were being trained in EU. Iran had POWs from 18 different countries.
3. EU and USA did not sell chemical weapons with missiles to Iraq directly. they provided "dual-use" tech which could have been used to produce either fertilizer or chemical weapons. USSR provided the missiles.
Thanks for doing this video, we Iranians owe you a lot