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    • Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
    • By: Kim Ghattas
    • Narrated by: Kim Ghattas, Nan McNamara
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 459 ratings
    • Kim Ghattas delivers a gripping account of the largely unexplored story of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, born from the sparks of the 1979 Iranian revolution and fueled by American policy....

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    • Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Khamenei
    • By: William R. Polk
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • William R. Polk provides an informative, history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East....

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    • A History, 1720 to the Present
    • By: John Ghazvinian
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 27 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the 18th century - the subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams....

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    • A Modern History
    • By: Abbas Amanat
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 41 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years....

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    • Special Forces Berlin & Operation Eagle Claw, JTF 1-79
    • By: James Stejskal
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • On November 4, 1979, "student" supporters of the Ayatollah seized the U.S. Embassy with over sixty hostages. Although the Cold War was in full swing, the Iran hostage crisis was a watershed for the United States.

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    • A History of the Islamic Republic
    • By: Michael Axworthy
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Axworthy takes listeners through the major periods in Iranian history over the last 30 years: the overthrow of the old regime and the creation of the new one; the Iran-Iraq war; the reconstruction era following the war; the reformist wave led by Mohammed Khatami; and the present day....

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    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • This scathing critique of US political culture is a brilliant analysis of the Iran-Contra scandal....

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    • Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East
    • By: Jay Solomon
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 312 ratings
    • From Qasem Soleimani to the nuclear deal, a deeply reported exploration of Iran’s decades-long power struggle with the United States - in the tradition of Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars and Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower....

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    • By: Walter Simmons
    • Narrated by: Dana Fleming
    • Length: 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Iran is an ancient country that used to be called Persia. The Persians were one of the oldest civilizations on Earth, and Persian culture has a strong presence in Iranian culture today.

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    • The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran
    • By: Medea Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • US relations with Iran have been fraught for decades, but, under the Trump Administration, tensions are rising to startling levels. Medea Benjamin, one of the best-known 21st century activists, offers the incredible history of how a probable alliance became a bitter antagonism....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Persia, from the Elamites Through the Medians, Achaemenids, Seleucid Empire, Parthia, and Sasanian Dynasty to the Arab Conquest (History of Iran)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Discover the history of ancient Iran that spans from Iran’s mysterious origins to the Islamic conquest....

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    • By: Shahriar Mandanipour
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra, Naila Azad
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • From one of Iran’s most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English - a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it’s like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today’s Iran....

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    • The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
    • By: Amin Saikal
    • Narrated by: Simon Shepherd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In Iran Rising, renowned Iran specialist Amin Saikal describes how the country has managed to survive despite ongoing domestic struggles, Western sanctions, and countless other serious challenges....

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    • Cosmology, Mythology, History
    • By: Iraj Bashiri
    • Narrated by: Mark Delgado
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Ancient Iran: Cosmology, Mythology, History presents Iran's pre-Islamic history within the context of both its complex cosmology and rich mythology....

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    • By: David Barsamian
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A timely primer on the conflict between the United States and Iran by scholars of Middle Eastern politics who advocate diplomacy and de-escalation....

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    • A History, 1720 to the Present
    • By: John Ghazvinian
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 26 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations of these two powers back to the Persian Empire of the 18th century and an America seen by Iranians as an ideal to emulate for their own government....

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