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History of Iran - Part 3 - American Minute with Bill Federer

History of Iran - Part 3 - American Minute with Bill Federer

Post World War I, Shah Reza’s secular government, Britain’s coup to oust him, Mossadegh confiscating British oil, and the pro-American Shah Reza Pahlavi ousted by Khomeini’s Islamist revolution.

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History of Iran Part 2 - American Minute with Bill Federer

History of Iran Part 2 - American Minute with Bill Federer

Safavid Dynasty, Persia's switch from Sunni to Shi’a, Shah Abbas the Great, trade with Britain’s East India Company, and oil

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Iran History - Part 1 - American Minute with Bill Federer

Iran History - Part 1 - American Minute with Bill Federer

In part one of this history of Iran, we will learn about ancient Persia, King Cyrus, the Sasanian Empire, the Abbasid Islamic Golden Age, the Mongol Invasion and Tamerlane.

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Scandals in U.S. History - American Minute with Bill Federer

Scandals in U.S. History - American Minute with Bill Federer

LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Below is a list of some political scandals.   1866 GUNS TO MEXICAN GANGS   After the Civil War, the United States secretly supplied "decommissioned" guns to Mexican gangs to cause domestic violence and insurrection in order to oust French-backed Maximillian the First.   This was in line with the Monroe Doctrine, that no European country should have a political presence in the Western Hemisphere. With American support, Benito Juárez was able to capture Maximillian and he was shot, June 19, 1867.   1868 JOHNSON REFUSED BLACK VOTING   President Andrew Johnson...

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Politics of Creating Crisis - Do The Ends Justify Means? - American Minute with Bill Federer

Scandals Ancient & Modern: "Ends" do not justify "Means"! - American Minute with Bill Federer

Politics of Creating Crisis -  Do The Ends Justify Means? - American Minute with Bill Federer

The conviction that one's political agenda is so good that it justifies bending the laws to implement it has produced innumerable scandals throughout history.

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