Can Iran's Protest Movement Survive?
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian rapper known for criticizing the regime with his music, has been arrested by the Iranian government. His friends and family now worry he could face the death penalty.
Guest: Nahayat Tizhoosh, Producer at the CBC.
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| 0:31.8 | This week, if you were looking at headlines, trying to figure out what exactly is happening |
| 0:42.0 | in Iran. |
| 0:43.6 | You would keep coming across one story in particular, again and again. |
| 0:48.2 | The story that the so-called morality police were being abolished. |
| 0:52.8 | Maybe. |
| 0:53.8 | What do we know about the morality police? |
| 0:57.4 | Have they been disbanded? |
| 0:59.1 | Not at all. |
| 1:00.5 | To be honest, though. |
| 1:01.5 | I started getting push notifications about this story at 10 a.m. on Sunday. |
| 1:06.3 | And reporters were trying to clean up the mess they left behind for days. |
| 1:10.5 | Now US officials believe the regime may be signalling they were shut down the morality |
| 1:14.4 | police as a way to preempt a planned three-day strike as the economy crumbles. |
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