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Iran vs. Saudi Arabia: Who Represents the Ummah? | Deep Dive: Iran Ep. 3 | Imam Tom Facchine
Two countries. Two competing visions for what Islamic governance could look like in the post-colonial world. So why did both fall short of what the ummah needed?
In Episode 3 of Deep Dive: Iran, Imam Tom Facchine steps back from theology and political theory to examine Iran through the lens of the ummah — asking a more fundamental question: Has Iran's Islamic Republic served the cause of Muslim liberation, or has it, like the Saudi model before it, ultimately prioritized its own national and sectarian interests?
Tracing two competing models of post-colonial Islamic governance — the Saudi and the Iranian — this episode maps the ideological forces that shaped the Muslim world from the fall of the Caliphate through the Cold War and into the present. Both models are assessed on their own terms, with attention to what each promised, what each delivered, and what the ummah deserves to expect from any claimant to Islamic leadership.
This is Episode 2 of a 4-part series examining Iran through four distinct lenses.
