Revolution and Its Discontents: Politics in Iran

US war drums beat for Iran: but what drives politics inside the Islamic Republic? James Butler is joined by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, author of ‘Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran’, to discuss Iranian politics and history: from British and American imperialism and the coup against Mossadegh, to the political theology of the post-1979 clerical regime, and the fate of the Iranian left.