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I'm Michael Balbaro.
This is the daily at the heart of the current US war against Iran is an inconvenient truth that the United
States is in many ways responsible for bringing about the very regime that it now seeks to topple today.
My colleague Times Magazine contributor Scott Anderson tells us the story of America's outsized
role in the Iranian Revolution and why all these years later, we're still no closer to understanding Iran.
It's Friday, June 12th.
Scott, welcome to the daily.
Thank you.
It's very nice to be here.
It's great to have you here.
We are at a moment in this almost four month long conflict between the United States
and Iran where the hostility and the distrust on both sides means that the ceasefire is kind of in name.
Only right kind of a postmodern type of ceasefire exactly and the peace talks that are supposed to be built atop
that postmodern shaky ceasefire are pretty much a mess and at the heart of this all is a Profound decades old hatred,
and I don't think that's too strong a word between the governments of Iran and the US and it's a hatred
whose origins we've never quite definitively told the story of on this show and You, not long before the war began,
pulled that story in what turned out to be a very well-timed book called King of Kings.
And what your book so powerfully recounts is that this relationship
between the US and Iran wasn't always filled with animus.