The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War:
Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards
Annie Tracy Samuel
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With Negar Mortazavi
Negar Mortazavi speaks with Annie Tracy Samuel about the history and formation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the role of the guards after the revolution and during the Iran-Iraq war, and how the group has evolved into a prominent organization today that influences Iran’s foreign and security policies. Our guest is Annie Tracy Samuel, Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga who specializes in the modern history of Iran and the Middle East. She is the author of The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
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Woman, Life, Freedom: A Discussion About Iran
Woman, Life, Freedom: A Discussion About Iran
February 22, 2023 at 4 p.m.
University of Arkansas, King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies
Arkansas Union 513-514
The New York Times
Re “Will Iran Pay for Its Murderous Campaign?” by Bret Stephens (column, Aug. 24)
The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (Cambridge UP, 2021) represents a fascinating and carefully documented intellectual history of how Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps document, remember, and contest the Iran-Iraq War and of its ramifications for the religious, cultural, and political history of the country. Utilizing a large corpus of a range of previously unexplored sources, Annie Tracy Samuel explains in meticulous detail and with aesthetic verve the interconnections between the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War, and the legacy of these two critical moments in relation to the Iranian state’s self- imagination today. This lucidly written book should interest scholars from a range of disciplines and non-academics as well.
With the exception of the policies that culminated in the JCPOA, the conventional wisdom on Iran in the United States has rested precariously on several deficiencies and misinterpretations.
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Segment runs 12:23-20:00
My interview at:
(1) 1407-14:29 / (2) 14:56-15:13 / (3) 17:54-18:12 / (4) 18:40-18:56
Change and the Guard
New Work on Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps
With Maryam Alemzadeh
April 5, 2022, 5:30 pm
Claudia Cohen Hall 402
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*Video now available*
The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies
March 30, 2022, 12:00 pm
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آنی تریسی ساموئل، تاریخشناس، در اینجا شرح میدهد که چرا هنگام مطالعه روابط آمریکا و ایران، مهم است که به فراتر از عناوین درشت اخبار و چکیده های صوتی نگاه کنیم و بر منابع اولیه - بهویژه منابع خود ایران – متمرکز شویم.
Historian Annie Tracy Samuel explains why, when studying the US-Iran relationship, it is important to look beyond the eye-catching sound bites and headlines, and instead focus on primary sources - especially those from Iran itself.
In this Spotlighting an Author event, Dr. Annie Tracy Samuel discussed the IRGC’s roles and power in contemporary Iran and demonstrates how the history of the Iran–Iraq War has an immense bearing on the Islamic Republic’s present and future.
During the extensive Q&A section of the event, Tracy Samuel answered a series of questions with topics from the most important lessons learned by the IRGC to similarities between the acceptance of Security Council Resolution 598 and the acceptance of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
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