"Five Minutes of Fire": Terror on the Airline, Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afganistan

<v Speaker 1>I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves.
<v Speaker 2>Give us five minutes and we will give you the fire.
<v Speaker 1>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't
<v Speaker 1>Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We
<v Speaker 1>are here talking about the lyrics of we Didn't Start
<v Speaker 1>the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes
<v Speaker 1>at a time, which is about to link the song,
<v Speaker 1>so it works out kind of nicely. So please join
<v Speaker 1>us as we dive into some new lyrics today. All right, guys,
<v Speaker 1>so here are the topics that we're going to.
<v Speaker 2>Be covering today.
<v Speaker 1>Terror on the airlines.
<v Speaker 2>Ayatola's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistanine. Okay, do you tell
<v Speaker 2>us about terror.
<v Speaker 1>On the airline? Okay. So, plane hijacking has been a
<v Speaker 1>thing almost as long as there have been planes. It
<v Speaker 1>was actually kind of an epidemic for a long period
<v Speaker 1>of time from nineteen twenty seven to nineteen sixty eight.
<v Speaker 1>But they put screenings and other safety measures in effect,
<v Speaker 1>and the amount of hijacking had seriously decreased by nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 1>But in nineteen eighty a new form of hijacking began,
<v Speaker 1>and that was the hijacking of planes by organized terrorists.
<v Speaker 1>I remember hearing about these things frequently as a kid.
<v Speaker 1>Some of the most notable ones are Air India Flight
<v Speaker 1>one eighty two, which was hijacked and bombed over the
<v Speaker 1>Irish coast. In eighty eight, we had pan Am flight
<v Speaker 1>one oh three and it was bombed while flying over Scotland.
<v Speaker 1>This created the terror of being on airplanes, and obviously
<v Speaker 1>the nineties saw a significant decrease until, of course, two
<v Speaker 1>thousand and one we had the biggest terrorist plane hijacking
<v Speaker 1>in history. All right, Jason Iatola, who is he? And whyse?
<v Speaker 2>And Iran Okay Iatola Ruhola Komani was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary,
<v Speaker 2>politician and religious leader who served as the First Supreme
<v Speaker 2>Leader of Iran from nineteen seventy nine until his death
<v Speaker 2>in nineteen eighty nine. He opposed the shaw's rights to women,
<v Speaker 2>He opposed land reforms, and he wanted to free Iran
<v Speaker 2>from the influence of the US and the uss R.
<v Speaker 2>He wanted to eliminate religious minorities and no state of Israel.
<v Speaker 2>He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran
<v Speaker 2>and the leader of the Iranian Revolution. Which overthrew the
<v Speaker 2>US supported Shaw that ended the Iranian monarchy. He turned
<v Speaker 2>Iran from a actually a Western friendly country into a
<v Speaker 2>theocratic rogue state. He called America the Great Satan and
<v Speaker 2>Russia the Blesser Satan. Komani served as Iran's ultimate political
<v Speaker 2>and religious authority for many years. He was involved in
<v Speaker 2>the US hostage crisis, and my favorite moment of his
<v Speaker 2>is when Leslie Nilsen punches him at the beginning of
<v Speaker 2>The Naked Gun.
<v Speaker 1>I remember that. I remember that guy. I mean he
<v Speaker 1>the Beard, the white Beard, and the black Turban and
<v Speaker 1>he was the face of evil in the eighties for me. Yes, yeah, yeah, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>Do you tell us about Russians in Afghanistan?
<v Speaker 1>Okay? So. The Soviet Afghan War was a protracted armed
<v Speaker 1>conflict in the Soviet controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. It
<v Speaker 1>went from nineteen seventy nine to nineteen eighty nine. The
<v Speaker 1>war was a major conflict of the Cold War, saw
<v Speaker 1>extensive fighting between the DRA the Soviet Union. The war
<v Speaker 1>was a major conflict of the Cold War. There was
<v Speaker 1>extensive fighting between the DRA, the Soviet Union, and allied
<v Speaker 1>paramilitary groups against the Afghan Mujahedeen and their allied foreign fighters.
<v Speaker 1>The Mujahadeen was backed by various countries and organizations. Most
<v Speaker 1>of their support came from Pakistan or the United States
<v Speaker 1>as part of the Operation Cyclone, the United Kingdom, China
<v Speaker 1>and Iran, and some of the Arab states of the
<v Speaker 1>Persian Gulf. The involvement of these foreign powers made it
<v Speaker 1>really more of a proxy war between the US and
<v Speaker 1>the Soviets. The combat went through the entire course of
<v Speaker 1>the eighties, mostly in the Aft countryside. It led to
<v Speaker 1>the deaths of between five hundred and sixty two thousand
<v Speaker 1>and two million Afghan citizens. Millions more fled from the
<v Speaker 1>country as refugees. Mostly they ended up in Pakistan and Iran.
<v Speaker 1>Approximately six and a half percent of the Afghanistan population
<v Speaker 1>is estimated to have been killed over the course of
<v Speaker 1>the conflict. The Soviet Afghan War caused destruction throughout Afghanistan
<v Speaker 1>and has been cited by scholars as a factor that
<v Speaker 1>contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, formally ending
<v Speaker 1>the Cold War. A sad thing that we know now
<v Speaker 1>is that a lot of those arms that we supplied
<v Speaker 1>to them back then, they began using when they fought
<v Speaker 1>against us, and here in the twenty first century. Okay, guys,
<v Speaker 1>that does it for today's episode. Join us next time
<v Speaker 1>for five minutes of fire.