Iran’s Complicated MEGACITY: Tehran
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- Tehran is the capital of Iran, the world’s only significant theocracy, and the largest city in West Asia, with a population of 15 million.
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Key sources and videos used:
Iran targets its children nyti.ms/3GV54ly
Students join protests bit.ly/3u9dePC
Frontline: Our Man in Tehran to.pbs.org/2L4U1FI
Who runs Iran bbc.in/3ASba1X
Tehran middle class on economy bit.ly/3VCqfN0
Renewable energy in Iran, A Review: bit.ly/3u63RzZ
The Shah by Abbas Milani bit.ly/3VxyEBn
Tehran (Wikipedia) bit.ly/3UkkRNv
Video: Persia before Khomeini (RUclips) bit.ly/3u4noB0
Iranian diaspora bit.ly/3gCuIAR
Video: History of Iran (RUclips) bit.ly/3VB59yE
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Chapters
0:00 Episode teaser
0:45 Geography of Iran
1:04 Tehran becomes the capital
1:31 Rise of Reza Khan
1:55 Reza Shah modernizes Iran
2:28 Shah makes enemies
2:59 Britain and the Soviets invade
3:21 CIA MI6 coup to oust Mossaddegh
3:51 Reign of Shah Pahlavi
4:01 Rise of Ayahtollah Ruhollah Khomeini
4:14 1979 Islamic Revolution
4:33 Iran's current government
5:00 Millions flee brutal government to America & Europe
5:27 Khomeini makes enemies with the US: the hostage crisis
5:45 Saddam Hussein's Iraq invades Iran
5:58 Mass immigration to Tehran
6:12 Iran's poor economy
6:34 Failed nuclear program
6:46 Huge renewable energy potential
7:04 Vulnerability to climate change: heat waves and drought
7:37 Tehran's megaprojects: metro, fast internet, sewer and water
8:02 Tabiat bridge
8:10 Youth of Tehran push for revolution
8:39 Government struggles to contain protests
8:53 Unprecedented actions by and against school children
9:05 Crossing the point of no return
9:15 What's next?
Located in west Asia, Iran has eight foreign borders and access to the ocean through the gulfs off its southern coast. Most of the country’s 87 million people live in the northwest, where it's cooler on the steppes of mountains home to the highest peak in Western Asia-Mount Damavand. In 1786, this land became the 32nd capital in the history of Persia, closer to areas in the north that had fallen under the influence of Russia and Britain.
Iran is highly vulnerable to the climate change temperature rise of 1.8 degrees C - that’s one-and-a-half times the mean global rise of 1.2 degrees. Prolonged drought that’s decimated its water supply and turned thousands of villages into ghost towns as surrounding farmland goes dry.
Several major projects have been completed in the capital. Tehran now has the largest metro system in the Middle East. Six cent ticket prices and a daily ridership of 3 million are improving its terrible traffic and air pollution. Internet speed and penetration has increased 10-fold; Tehran’s new, integrated sewer and water treatment system is 90% operational; and it’s internationally-celebrated Tabiat bridge.
The current Supreme Leader is an 83-year old in questionable health guiding a regime struggling to contain protests led by women demanding full rights that are inspiring millions to demand a functioning economy.
I profiled London last time and am exploring Buenos Aires, Argentina next.
USA vs. Iran Highlights | 2022 FIFA World Cup
I felt it was more about Iran than Tehran.
Of all the countries in South Asia and west Asia and Central Asia, I have to say that Iranian people seem to be the smartest and brightest by far.
Yup
But thier goverment is stupid ☺
How? What have they accomplished after the fall of the Ancient Persia
Thank you for these kind words.
@@dynamitebsb4520 The Golden era of Islam was mainly because of Iran.
I mean that's not a great compliment anyway, considering every South Asian, Central Asian and West Asian country (with the exception of Turkey) are dirty poor and receive minimum education.
I love how this video continuously leaves out a lot of the key western involvement. Like completely leaving out that Khomeini took refuge in Paris and was supported by the west and the CIA and was flown into Iran by air france after western powers were salty that the Shah raised the oil prices.
Very very convenient to just forget that the west brought Khomeini and this very same regime to power.
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Read my comment.........also what do you expect. It's their job to demonize the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
I agree that the West had a big role to play here but the USA surely did not want this. The shah was already an American puppet and the Islamic Republic nationalized all oil. The USA also supported Iraq in the war very heavily.
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Edit: I reread your message and saw that you just said the US didn't want this to happen. I do apologise for the harsh comments, but yes you are right the US didn't want this to happen.
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great you can think all you want when the facts are there.
The Shah raised oil prices and turned away from the west leading to the first set of sanctions. You can read about all that. ( my father for example wanted to watch star wars in the cinema but Iran was sanctioned then ) . So no they had a fallout during the last years of the Shah. Then the western news in Iran started always pushing Khomeini. Add to it that Khomeini was harboured by the French and financially supported by the CIA (don't believe me? Look it up).
Furthermore president Carter later admitted to it.
The US brought this regime this is just a fact. They were the west's tool to stop the soviet sponsored communists who would have taken power else. Remember we were in the cold War.
Khomeini then betrayed the US and stormed the embassy, prompting the hostage crisis.
Now you can't just betray your sponsor and get away with it can you ?
*dramatic music*
Meet the Iraq war. Were the US sponsored Saddam Hussain, and supplied among other weapons also illegal weapons so that Saddam can Gas our people.
It is irrelevant what people think in face with history. If you don't believe it you can search it up. This reminds me of when people start going like "but I don't believe the nazis could have killed 6 million jews" where the answer is, great , look it up and stop believing.
Always blaming others, never taking accountability, that will get them far I’m sure
80% of the video talks about dictatorship and war, instead of the birth and expansion and modernization of the capital city. This is my least favorite videos of the series.
Yay I'm so happy your making this type of content again!! Literally been waiting since 2016 for these type of videos
Yay, thanks! More to come!
It's not entirely true lol. Are you really that easily manipulated
This could be a mini series in itself, so much history of this beautiful country and city. I so want to visit Tehran as a Canadian, it's a longshot but I don't think it's impossible.
I agree
I'm Iranian, and actually encourage you to do that. It's a very safe country, people are also very welcoming. Western media are constantly trying to brainwash people about Iran, and maybe the only solution to this problem is that more western people visit Iran, and see the actual situation with their own eyes.
Iran is a beautiful country with beautiful nature, beautiful people, beautiful food and culture.
*The only thing that ruined it is the same thing that still ruins the middle-east is an awful mindset from 7th century Arabia*
Even today there are refugee communities that are thriving in India and real Parsi effect can still be felt in the Culture of India.
Edit: Whatever remains in Iran must be protected and should not be allowed to further deteriorate by human greed or an awful mindset.
Persian culture is so magnificent compared to current uninspired Arab islamic knockoff.
Maybe if the west would just go home and no constantly intervene we might actually have a chance to develop without them financing a radical Islamic terrorist group every 10 second ?
@@alexdragomir657 xenodah is not magnificent
Blaming Islam for the Middle East is odd, because it's only ever since the 1700s that the Middle East experienced decline, otherwise from 700-1300, the Middle East was the center of the Old World, where knowledge from all lands converged and scientific method was born.
Islamophobe 🙄
This one seemed more thrown together to make use of the current events. Loved the deeper dives of the city themselves and what is like for the people who live there.
Iran ıs Arab ❤️
@@IranianArab12 Iran has an Arab minority, too.
These feel like social justice histories rather than true urban analyses like old Sao Paulo one.
This video seems more to be about the current regime and less about the neutral history, and facts about Tehran.
One of the main challenges with this project is deciding how much time to dedicate on setting the city within the history of the country. For Tehran, as a capital that has seen so much turmoil in the last 75 years, I felt it necessary to explain how impactful that history has been in shaping modern Tehran.
Ignore ahsan, who clearly supports the current regime 🙄
@@patrickmiller5125 why do you all have to immediately point fingers.
You deflect any form of criticism by just saying pro regime
@@patrickmiller5125 no where in their comment did they say they were “pro regime”. They simply said the video didn’t really talk about the actual city which it didn’t…
Eff the regime from a Persian . You can’t speak on it if you haven’t lived in iran
I've seen a lot of history videos and city-history videos. These are really up there in terms of quality. Plenty of intelligently narrated material, well selected historical background, great graphics. The music is not intrusive. My only complaint is that I want more! So keep em comin' please..
I'm so happy you appreciate my work, Peter. Will do!
Great video! I like how this profile includes current crises (something your recent London video omitted). Your videos combine history, demographics and environmental analyses in ways that are particularly apropos at this time.
Thank you for this comment. I try hard to keep it fresh and mix up the angles I take while also trying for a roughly consistent approach.
would be very interesting to see a video about Athens, Greece! Although it's many problems, total lack of city planning and a very rapid expansion in the previous decades, now it's trying to modernize and expand its infrastructure and aim for a better future over all!
Ehh, pretty run of the mill small European capital. No real indıstry besides Tourism and Government employment. Not really any growth prospects either.
@@fusionreactor7179 nonsense
@@fusionreactor7179 they are actually trying to create an eco park with skyscrapers etc
@@fusionreactor7179 also they are building an f1 track
@@giasifman9050 no demand for skyscrapers, no real office jobs, no urbam growth, no population growth. They can build it but it will sit empty
This was alright, but it did not address Tehran specifically, other than a pedestrian bridge. This addressed Iran's regime in general. It was still informative, but it was equivalent to saying you're doing a video on Beijing, then focusing on China as a whole, and Xi Jinping instead of the specific city.
Tehran is not Iran.
@@absolutefolly2011 Sure, but my point is don't lead with "Tehran, Iran's MEGACITY". "The World's Largest Theocracy" can stand alone without being misleading.
你来过中国吗？不要胡说八道。你来自哪个国家？
I never saw religions bring peace anywhere. My heart is with Iranian people who deserves freedom
Exactly
Pfft, what a joke.
@@urbanghoul20 What is, against his comment or in concurrence with him? I can guess which one, but I'll let you speak for yourself.
@@absolutefolly2011 Spot on
And we should destroy Vatican ?
My hope is that the youth of Iran stands strong, and keeps fighting for change.
The good people of Iran deserve to be free to live the kind of life that they want to live, and not dictated to live the way one man, and a small minority of others, want them to live.
Great video!
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Bruh they hate you
@@chashmal10 No, we don't. Please don't speak on our behalf.
@@heliagh9584 you burn the flags of other nations in the street. Alllll the time. Hate.
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Not all of them.
I relate the ones that do, to the MAGA crowd, or anyone else that has been brain washed to some extent.
Plenty of folks there don't hate Americans, in general.
Just like in Iran, and other countries, they don't equate the people of America, with the American government.
Two totally different things.
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With the embassy attack iran officially declared war on US.
Iranian people are so friendly and their country is so beautiful ❤
Great content plz keep making more
Will do Jaydon, thanks man!
wonderful. Thanks for your beautiful video 🙏❤
It is really painful to compare the Iran of Pahlavi's time with today's Iran, the Iran that we once knew as peace and friendship, equality, freedom of speech and gender and religious equality, now have been conquered by hungry leeches which brought us nothing more than lie , atheism, war, enmity, misery and dishonor. They have not created for their own people and other neighbors and the world and most importantly Iran
Who do you think should lead Iran if the regime falls?
@@TDC_TheDocumentaryChannel
I believe that Iran's administrative system should be like England, a president or prime minister who does not have absolute power and is elected by the will of the people, and the Iranian royal family will only be recognized as a symbol of Iran's 2500-year history and will not interfere in politics.
And iran will open it's gates to west and America and will rebuild it's reputation and honour among other countries
Really , so why did your people kicked shah out of Iran , if he was so great
Stop lying,Palani shah was a brutal dictator back then no one couldn't even talk about the regime in his private with his friends otherwise secret police had him arrested,75% of women and 50% of men were illiterate, minimum wage was 30 dollars per month (200 toman,each 7 toman equal to 1 dollar) right now the least is 133 dollars whatever you see in iran was built by our sacred Republic only main cities had electricity hours per day ,roads were awful, should send videos of those years or will you stop lying.
Tehran has such a vast history and so many details the producer brought up could be elaborated on. I really did enjoy the video, just wish it would have been much longer. Thank you for your work.
Tehran has no history compared to some other Iranian cities like Shiraz and Isfahan. Lol.
Tehran has no history compared to some other Iranian cities like Shiraz and Isfahan. Lol.
Força iran 🇧🇷❤️🇮🇷
Nice video thanks for the contribution ⛄📸
The term Iran derives directly from Middle Persian Ērān, first attested in a third-century inscription at Naqsh-e Rostam, with the accompanying Parthian inscription using the term Aryān, in reference to the Iranians.[41] The Middle Iranian ērān and aryān are oblique plural forms of gentilic nouns ēr- (Middle Persian) and ary- (Parthian), both deriving from Proto-Iranian language *arya- (meaning "Aryan", i.e. "of the Iranians"),[41][42] recognized as a derivative of Proto-Indo-European language *ar-yo-, meaning "one who assembles (skilfully)".[43] In the Iranian languages, the gentilic is attested as a self-identifier, included in ancient inscriptions and the literature of the Avesta,[44][d] and remains also in other Iranian ethnic names Alan (Ossetian: Ир Ir) and Iron (Ирон).
Great video thank you for making a video about my country
You're welcome. Good luck out there 🙂
It would have been better if the video actually was what it claims to be ... About Tehran, the city. This was a recap of the modern history of Iran, which i already knew
Viva Iran 🇮🇷
very well made dude, keep it up!
Thanks Gus, will do!
1:55 Iran has always been called Iran by Iranians. Persia is a province in Iran (Pars/Fars).
*_The Medians & Achaemenids_* called their Empire as *Airyanām Xsaça*
*_The Parthians_* called their Empire as *Aryanxsathr/Aryanshahr*
*_The Sasanians_* called their Empire as *Êranshâhr*
I love your content! Thank you
Thank you Jacob!
you guys have to make more of these videos. I would like them to be longer and more in depth also. But only because I love the content. I want to see more!!!
These videos are such a joy to watch
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Good, well-balanced, overview for a 9 minute video! It seems to look to the future, beyond the Islamic Republic.
Thanks Ben!
A few suggestions for this series: Bangkok; Karachi; Ho Chi Minh City; Seoul; Mumbai; Lagos; Johannesburg; and Osaka.
Also add Frankfurt, Istanbul, Chicago, Santiago, Rio, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Auckland and Sydney
Dakar, Dhaka, Adis Ababa, Cape Town
great video
Thanks Nikul!
thanks for your true information
8:05
That's a good-looking bridge.
Era of the last Despotes. Unite good people.
Long Live the Islamic Republic of Iran.
F the Shah and their Stooges
Mate, why do people from the West always look negatively on these countries? Pls, tell me. Iran is a strong stable country, they don't let Western corrupt countries sticky fingers on their luxury like oil etc.
love, from iran , land of cyrus the great
You should do a video on Bogota! its metro area is 10 mil +
Indeed it is, just became a MC this year I believe so coming soon! Buenos Aires next though.
Definitely one of my favourite channels
Thanks Roberto!
One of the most learned people to have crossed paths with me has been the Iranians. For these people, rebellion comes naturally. Monotheism has plundered the nation like anything and these people are fighting for their rights. Great going Iranians!
While this was a good general overview of modern Iranian history, not much of it was about the city of Tehran.
DAROOD MUHAMMAD O ALAY MUHAMMAD I LOVE IRAN ITS REVOLUTION ITS FOOD ITS PEOPLE ABUTURAB SHAH FROM AMERICA
Much love to the people of Iran!
Somehow I doubt the feeling is mutual
Thank you bro🤝❤️❤️👍
@@chashmal10 خفه مزدور حکومت
Can make a video about, santiago de cjile, Bogotá and Buenos aires?
It might be a nit pick, but Iran/Persia had plenty of universities in its past. Most famously would be gondishapur, but there were definitely more. That was all over 1500 years ago too!
Iran,beautiful Country.
the gdp figure is wrong in 6:36 IMF uses the data the regime gives to them which has a fixed rate of the Iranian currency, in reality its around 213billiion gdp, the currency is not freely tradable due to sanctions , CIA datawebsite will be a better source pls correct that
Great video about Iran, not Tehran.
I really want a video of Edinburgh
Commiserations to all Iranians for the World Cup, but know that people all around the world applaud the bravery of the women and men of Iran as you struggle to free yourselves from tyranny and to gain the dignity to make your own choices in politics and in life. I hope that, very soon, people from all corners of the Earth will meet in Tehran as you begin a new era as a full member of the community of nations.
Thanks this channel deserve more views ...The best Iranian dynasty in the history of Iran the Pahlavi dynasty was Reza Shah and his son Mohammad Reza
Reza Shah has done so many things for Iran✌✌
Cheers!
Hmm I think the sassanids and achaemedians would beg to differ
@@patrickjeffers7864 I think they are implying contemporary Iran (not ancient)
The one who wants those slaves back replied with "Cheers!"
@@surushs.447 the one whos dad gets his money from the regime gets upset over it
are you gonna make a video about Bogota or any city in Colombia?
Yes, getting there.
great
Lots of Love to Iranian peoples and their government💚
Very poggers see your megacities get the views they deserve, although more is needed!
Iran is my favorite country in West Asia, want to visit this country once!
If you do, Isfahan is the most beautiful city I've ever seen.
Iran is Really Good Country but We have Economic Problem !!!
Iran has economic problems because of sanctions that west forced them on them , only because they want to be independent, western hypocrites
@@wisdomisbetterthansilverorg0ld
That's True
We Must be Economic Super Power Same as South Korea or Indonesia
but We are Sanctioned We Can't Sell or Buy anything we can't do business Without Problem !!!!
@@OshinAttari change is under construction, they can’t stop Iran any longer , Iran is going to be great in every single field, mark my words ✌🏼🇮🇷
is a very good video 😊
Didn’t really talk about the actual city in comparison to say, your London and Jakarta videos
When Mossadegh was ousted in '53, it was due in large part to the US, and specifically the Dulles brothers. This whole Islamic State thing was made in the USA.
This video is LESS about the city of Tehran, and more about the current crisis of Iran. I was here to learn about Tehran, but you didn’t cover that much about the city.
The really fascinating question about our history is what alien intelligences played what role in each of our landmark historical events. Aliens from the Abyss have told me personally they played a role in the war in Ukraine for example. It's a question for future generations. if it can even be answered but we know now it's real.
As a persian I can confirm Tehran is worse than Ohio 💀
Western sanctions failed to break Iran, be proud of yourself, great Persians.
The regime must go!
Cirus the great legacy stained by the
Tempre
Priests
Long Live Iran and its people and the great Pahlavi dynasty.
I think that Asia is the paradise continent for dictators..
Iran is a beautiful country and has a lot of man kinds history, its a shame that corrupt old men have ruined this country for the benefit of themselves and their families. Free Iran and power to people!
I wonder why this is just anti Iranian propaganda instead of a video on Tehran
Do one about Trinidad and Tobago
I loved your video 📹 ❤️ greetings from tehran
Iran could have been a major player on the world stage if it weren’t under a brutal regime and Islamic extremist
That's what's up
Iran's soul is totally disconnected from our spirit for eternity.
What?
should have focused on the city than the country and current politics, the show is called MEGACITY not mega country also lets talk about its politics I say this as an iranian, im tired of always seen the negative side of our cities and countries in western medias,
I love Tehran😍🇮🇷
Can you make one for MANILA?!. #please
Yes, very soon
You need to change the title. You didn't even talk about the city, what kind of video this?
Strange that you can sub in Saudi Arabia for Iran in this video and come to the same conclusion. But no, they're too important, they're a US ally and loyal customer....for now
Please do a video of Metro Manila
if only those teenagers knew how much suffering Iran went through during the US backed Iraq invasion. 9 years of war and suffering. Tik-Tok generation can be very naive
Thanks for the fair and realistic report on Iran. Iran’s society has undergone a rapid and radical transformation during the past four decades, and it is not the same society as the one that made the 1979 revolution. Regime change is the only solution for the creation of a democratic Iran.
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Hundreds in jail? More like 20,000 in just a couple months. Not to mention the war happening in the Kurdistan regions
More of a one sided history lesson, your other videos were much better.. Btw, if avg mean temp has risen by 1.8deg in Iran, vs 1.2deg ROW, how is that 1.5x times higher? I am gonna cut some hair in protest lol
Do one about Port of Spain
Everyday I pray for a true people's revolution in Iran, and don't let America get involved, that only makes matters worse. Iran needs a Lee Kuan Yew kind of guy (well, pretty much every country needs a guy like him)
Religion should be personal not Public.
Need to do Seoul and Beijing at some point!
Yes, Seoul coming soon.
Deserves to get free and built futuristic ❤️
came for a city analysis and got a history lesson
Do one about Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
It is not brutally offensive as Egypt
I HOPE WHAT HAPPENED TO LIBYA WILL NOT HAPPEN TO IRAN, IMAGINE A PEACEFULL REVOLUTION THAT WOULD CHANGE THE REGIME IN IRAN, THE PROGRESS THAT IT WILL BRING NOT ONLY TO IRAN ITSELF BUT THE WORLD BECAUSE OF ITS RICH RESOURCES.
This is what our religious fanatics want here
I really wish this video wasn't just a bunch of rehashed political propaganda points. I would be interested in knowing about Tehran. How Ayotollah Khomenini came up, idk. I've seen videos about NY that don't mention Jimmy Carter.
Exactly💯💯 the regime's anti Pahlavi propaganda was ridiculously recanted
@@absolutefolly2011 'Tyranny' lol. Life isn't a video game. Soviet propaganda spend decades teaching its citizens about the 'tyranny' Americans were under since our entire lives and government are controlled by un-democratic corporations. Maybe they're wrong, maybe they're right, but if that's the only thing you share about America to your citizens, isn't that it's self 'tyranny'? Isn't the narrowness of information you get about something a sign that you're under some type of involuntary tyranny? Iran is a suprisingly modern, suprisingly liberal, suprisingly democratic, suprisingly progressive and suprisingly well developed country. All a suprise because all we hear is pentagon propaganda points, so you'll never know these things. Again, this video can be 100% accurate, but what are you telling us and why? Like I said, I have heard about NY many times without need to mention Jimmy Carter. What is the point of hearing about Ayatollah Khomenini (his contemporary) in a video (and every video) about Tehran? Did he found Tehran? The title misled me to thinking I was going to learn about this city rather than US 'they like don't us' propaganda. Why not tell us the ups and downs of Tehran its self like other city videos.
All the US $$$$$$$ and aid to the Middle East, I see no improvement for the people there. As a matter of fact the US isn’t doing too great either.
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