Hi all - as usual sources can be found both in the description and on this pinned comment! Let me know what you think of the video/script in the comments below! www.dropbox.com/s/e8qa12hvnl1tcuz/Iran%20Video%20Script-Sources.docx?dl=0

you deserve so much more attention. it hurts to see this quality be so grossly underappreciated.

Absolutely astounding video - an intriguing and serious look at a history too often over-simplified and overlooked, complemented by some truly amazing work in presentation. Beautiful and informative. What more can you ask for?

As an Iranian I can say that this is one of the best most well informed video I have ever seen about this topic. Thank you for handing this subject with class

Watching this for free feels like a crime. Fantastic production quality, you deserve 20x the subs

Iranian here, Thanks a lot for covering this topic, you did an amazing job!👍😊

Woah, both Hoog and Imperial uploaded at the same time? This is a good day

thanks for all the context!

Why is this channel with so much production value & great knowledge of the sociopolitical underpinning of various countries and it’s citizens so underrated.

As an Iranian-American, I just want to say, this is the best summation of history and current day context I have ever seen from a short 24 min video. *Bravo!*

hell yes, thank you for tackling this topic with your thorough research and superb writing, narration, and illustration.

Great video buddy, changing the standards of the platform. Fantastic

this is one of the most comprehensive and thorough explanations about the reasons of current uprising with an impressive background I have ever seen about my country

amazing production quality, very calmly presented yet precise video essay and analysis!

Incredible video as always. The effort in these videos is unmatched

well done and surprisingly thorough given it’s only 23 min! As an Iranian, I want to thank you for this exceptionally informed work❤️ Not many mainstream media articles/videos do even close to a fair job covering other cultures - most particularly the middle east and Iran. We rely almost solely on skilled independent media like yours for true coverage and research to spread the actual voice of the people and an awareness that comes close to the full picture - something the western media’s been notorious for hiding! Just one small thing I’d like to add - which this video actually contained, but maybe could be more clear on:) - is that even though the oppositions and movements might seem very contradictory in our recent history, as you put it, the strive for freedom and democracy has always been vastly present in society. It’s just that revolutions have a very destructive common feature, and that’s the necessity of reaching a stage of “practical radicalism” in the shortest possible time. Revolutions are ultimately the outcome of decisions made by few popular groups. They always have to reach a firm consensus and come up with only the most practically radical strategy to quickly get the job done. That means they often ignore even the meaning and connotations of the strategy itself and it’s solely used as a means to an end. What ends up happening is that strategy and tool becomes the very foundation of future governments and brings yet another authoritarian regime. Revolutions have a talent for “forgetting” - for the lack of a better word - what was “means” and what was “ends”. The reason, as I mentioned, is lack of long enough time for these movements to both begin *and* end. They have to both overthrow AND build a new state as fast as humanly possible. As a result, any power void is filled with whatever’s available at the time - usually the tools already used by revolutionaries that were def not meant to survive beyond the overthrow. I hope I said that well enough tho haha

Thank you for putting a spotlight on this topic!

i love these documentary style videos, you and LEMMiNO are the best at em

Great video, especially the visuals are outstanding. BUT a major flaw is that there is no mention of the role of the struggle against oppression of ethnic minorities by the Kurds, Baloch and other of the country. It's no wonder that protests started in Kurdistan, that over 20 Kurdish cities protested already when it was only 3 in the rest of Iran, that Kurdistan and Balochistan remain the hotbeds of protests and that Balochistan has seen by far the most killed protesters.

Most accurate video I’ve seen regarding Irans historical culture! I’ve talked to a lot of people from the revolution generation and your analysis is the closest to reality. Great job!

Dude you gotta make like a master class series on how you make your videos. Each one is a work of art!

Well Turkey is today experiencing the backlash of Ataturks reforms in the current form of the religious AK Party and it's leader Tayip Erdogan. I have Turkish friends who are middle class and moderately religious whose parents have awful memories of 70s and 80s when you were made to feel ashamed if you were an observant muslim. A friend told me that when his father served in the army in the 90s, he had to ask permission to read his Koran. Well, stuff like that generates resentment.

Amazing work as always!

Great work man! Something to be proud of.

You are getting better with every video. Keep up the good work.

What an amazing video. Well researched, informative and absolutely stunning animations. Definitely subscribing to this channel, well done!

This is an excellent channel! Keep up this top tier quality and you are bound to blow up in popularity!

Such a well made video. As an Iranian, I learned so many new things from your analysis. Thank you 🙏

The editing is so nice

Amazing like usual. You deserve a lot more attention, keep up the awesome work

Great video production and amazing content, keep it up 👍

Thanks a bunch for making this amazing video. Be our voice

Great video as always

the visuals are stunning

It's also important to highligt the uphill battle an oil-rich country like Iran faces to become democratic. Like the 1953 coup by USA and England, which resulted in exiling of the democratically-elected prime minister. Foreign entities always have an incentive to keep the country undemocratic since it's simply easier to take advantage of.

Fair and balanced video, loved the presentation and narration. Thank you

Three things I have dedicated vast amounts of time in my life to are history, politics and visual design. Seeing you so seemlessly integrate a high level of mastery of all three in your videos is really a remarkable thing. The craft - from research to argumentation to articulation to visual expression - is astounding. Thank you so much for putting this out into the world.

Great Video. Your content is always a treasure

Amazing production

Come here from Kraut's Community Post. You're an underrated channel with lots of room for growth.

Wonderful job. Well detailed. This topic needs more attention. Im not sure how yet, there will be a revolution. There is no turning back from here for the Iranian society. The unrest is now been longer than the 1979 revolution. This time luckily the population is better informed and will be rewarded with a peoples democracy with equal representation of the rich tapestry of religions and cultures who had been their for thousands of years, instead of just one.

Amazing video, loved the animations

A very good and informative clip excellently explained. Thank you.

An amazing video. And very accurate well done

such a good video... this is so well made🤝🕊️

A 4K video. Amazing. Also video is phenomenal.

Thank you. from Tehran, The middle of revolution

Astounding that this channel isn't already at over a million subs. Absolutely stunning.

A hell of a lot better than most videos about iran on youtube ❤ (The template of starting at Cyrus the Achamenid, then jumping to a fake story about Mosaddeq, and then to Khomeini gives us iranians headache at this point.) Although as a nitpick, i would have preferred a segment about the "land reform" program and it's subsequent rapid demographic shift of rural to urban migration (which gave conservatism immense power), and maybe another segment on the role of USSR proxies like the Tudeh party in weaving of the "anti-imperialist" narrative.

Great job! I would like to see more content like yours on the platform:)

With all respect, that "brief overview" of yours on what happened and what led to the events of 1979,especially wildly lacking of acknowledgement of foreign involvement over oil benefits and struggle with Shah,his mysterious illness etc,just doesn't cut it.I wish you success .

Keep up the high quality videos; you're going to be big!

Wonderful video!

Your animations really are becoming incredible. Can I ask, do you use Blender or Cinema 4D?

Very good video, I’ve enjoyed it.

Stunning visuals !

As an Iranian i must say this is a very well produced video, well done sir. Iranians have been fighting for democratic values and freedom for more than 150 years and despite several huge set backs in the way which you described very well, i believe majority of Iranian people today are way more progressive and liberal compared to our neighbors in the region

This is the greatest, most visually appealing, factually correct and in-depth video on KZfaq.

Nice work dude, you just got another subscriber.

Always interesting

Great video. As an International Relations student, this hit all the marks.

very well said thanks

This is why the enemie of your enemie is not your friend.

Great video, do you edit these yourself?

Amazing graphics!

I remember talking to you about this project & I was really pleased to see you cover it. The Iranian feminist movement is something I’ve been paying attention to since around 2018 after the WhiteWednesday movement started a year before. Iranian women are a real inspiration to all those against injustice & gender inequality. I’m glad more western/Europeans are starting to become aware of the situation in iran. Gold as always. Remember me when you make the 1M sub mark my friend!

As a westerner it’s fascinating to hear about your country history wich is never talk about in our classes

i've said this to a couple other creators in yt. i grew up watching british documentaries and similar, also a lot of pbs and nat geo (when they talked about nature before they had a channel), even tho i didn't live in the US or europe. but i was quite privileged to have access to it, specially because the "nudge" came from my dad and his nudge came from his parents on this kind of content and sources. imperial's (and a few other) channel is the proof youtube is such an amazing platform. you can have this level of production, which back then for me to watch something like this it needed millions and a network backing it up, and everyone can have access to it now for free. althought you shouldn't and should give him money. but you guys know what i mean. anyway, i sincerely think all the great documentarists from this generation will be youtubers, since other streaming (like nf) seem very restrictive on how many risks they're willing to take.

Imperial dude you killed it again please don’t ever stop

Very interesting video. Hope to see Progressive Republicans take hold in Iran one day. Also like the song you used throughout the video. Kaisseriech has a lot of good tracks and the Fathers Theme fits so well for this video, although in the story of the song its representive of an American General turned Emporer of the nation and the growing tensions between Authorization, Syndicalism, and Republicanism.

Keep it up and you will break through!

kind of pissed at myself for forgetting to subscribe months ago😅 amazing production

yo sick video, are you gonna put up a script with sources again? like you did for your video on spain, would love to read them

Do you think you will ever make anything about the balkans soon ? Just asking your videos are great man whatever you do I will watch it

These videos and the way they are narrated and illustrated remind me of the filmbooks Paul Atreides watched in Dune.

I love this hitman-esque animations

1st Song is Lune by Tony Anderson btw. Great artist, deserves credit

Hands down the best recap of Iranian progressive movements in the 20th century that you can find on KZfaq in English.

Really good summary of my country… we will make it right this time… we have the knowledge now

Informative video, wish I could edit like this..

great Video!

Insane video. Got goosebumps because I feel so close to the topic

flabbergasted by the quality

Too good of a video and too good of a channel

This guy did his research. Well done.

What happened to your video on the Red Army Faction?

Great video❤️thanks (Add Persian subtitles for the people of Iran )❤️🤍💚 #IRANREVOLUTION2022

Nice video

As an Iranian Canadian, I am so thankful you covered this. Great job🙏

I'm from Iran, your video was very informative, great job! you should have more subs

Saying this video incredible would be an understatement! very well thought out content with next level animation. Keep up the good work! I came across this video in the midst of the passing of controversial bills in Indonesia, a diverse muslim majority country that has Bali in it. The government just recently passed laws that reduce the right to criticize the government as well as making pre-marital sex and cohabitation illegal (and other problematic ones, one of them for ex. is reducing, again reducing duration of sentence for corruption to only 2 years and max. is 20 years. this is besides the point, but just to show how f*cked the politicans are in here). These laws are causing controversy right now as many consider it as an attack to individual rights and privacy, and apparently the country's amazing lawmakers with boomer mindset are obsessed to destroy such things just as the current theocracy of Iran has been doing. Many of the sentiments used to disregard 'progressive laws' is quite also similar to Iran, where such laws is not being released as it is stigmatized to be a 'western doctrine', border line deeming it as blasphemy. Quite a scary fact, as this begs the question whether we're going to slip into the like Iran in the future.

Reminds me of 1791l. Did you watch his videos?

Incredibly beautiful❤

‏What is happening in Iran today is the continuation of the 43-year-old crime of the Islamic regime founded by Khomeini. The question is, how did Khomeini come to power? The best answer is given by former American President Carter: "In 1979, when we decided to remove the Shah of Iran, with the guidance of England, we negotiated the option of the fall of the Shah of Iran through religion, because with the Shah's military power in the region and his diplomatic influence between the countries There was no way in the world we could wage a military and political war against him, and because he was a vindictive politician, we chose religion, and we chose the person in question, who was Khomeini. And by washing the minds of the people of Iran through the radios, we left the task of overthrowing the Shah in the hands of his people, and you saw that we succeeded. And this was the beginning of the end of human civilization, a big monster named Khomeini whose goal was to take the people of the world to the depths of darkness 1400 years ago with the dream of Islamic caliphate. After coming to power, Khomeini took 52 American diplomats hostage in Iran for 444 days by saying that "I will punch America in the mouth" and with this move questioned the great power of America in the international community. And it caused great panic in the world by Islamic fanatics. The existence of terrorists, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, Shadal al-Shabi, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS, all happened when Khomeini came to power. The terrible event of September 11 was one of the most prominent human crimes committed by this criminal sect. The crime that is being committed against the women of Iran and Afghanistan today is all caused by the ugly, dirty and ignorant actions of those who brought a stupid and superstitious mullah into the 21st century from the time tunnel of 14 centuries ago. And unfortunately, Carter's cronies have supported and continue to support this movement in strengthening these criminals

Wow, just wow. This is the most neutral and objective video I've seen on the entire fiasco. Hats off brother, you need a lot more views and lot more subscribers.

3:45 Important to note, that these three things encourage progressivism. That also works in reverse. If you want to choke progressivism, choke those things which produce it.

I find the usage of the term "progressive" a bit confusing. Progress towards what exactly are we talking about?

I saw that this was uploaded before the title and thumbnail changed. I haven't watched the video yet but I have no doubt that it's great and informative, but I'll miss the non-clickbait title

Iranian here, some details are left out like how Reza Shah came to power, Mosaddegh era, land reforms etc. all backed by Britain early on and USA later on however, its a well made video on "what's up with Iran for people in a hurry"

How did you make these graphics?