Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini - their rise to power

“History is always about people” and this episode will look at the rise to power of two individuals who had a profound effect on history and not just in their own countries but in the Gulf states as a whole and, indeed, on the world. These two men were going to shake things up and the world is today a very, very different place, far less stable, than before they came to power.

 

Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream:

https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad