Episodes

Intelligence professional and Substack author Sharon Bibee joins us for this episode, which kicks off our new series "The U.S. and Iran: What Went Wrong." We begin with a discussion of the U.S. response to events in what was then Qajar Persia from 1800 to 1920, a time when Iran was a pawn in the struggle for dominance in the region between the British and Russia Empires. American missionaries play a positive role in our story, and we meet two Americans -- missionary and teacher Howard Baskervill...