Can the Iranian protests succeed where others have failed?

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Protests in Iran flared up again today, despite the Revolutionary Guards setting a weekend deadline for getting off the streets. There have been widespread protests in the country before, but these were cracked down on in brutal fashion. Is this time any different? And does the west have any leverage? Historian Abbas Milani joins the program to discuss. Also on today's show: Heather McGhee, host of The Sum of Us podcast; Barbara F. Walter, author of How Civil Wars Start. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	Defiant in Iran keeping up the protest despite prosecutions and new threats to stay off the streets.
0:18.0	Historian Abbas Milani from Stanford University on why the fear of the regime is dissipating.
0:25.0	Plus...
0:26.0	The only way to save democracy is if we together nurture it and fight for it.
0:33.4	The United States at a crossroads,
0:35.7	author and podcaster Heather McGee
0:38.2	shares stories from her cross-country road trip,
0:41.0	finding hope in a time of peril.
0:43.0	And we just have to have the political will and our leaders have to have to have the
0:48.7	courage to do something about it.
0:51.5	Reversing America's descent into violent extremism.
0:55.3	Political scientist Barbara Walter tells Harry Streinavasen
0:58.7	how civil wars start and how to stop them. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Now if you're looking for a word that
1:24.2	encapsulates the last few years of war, COVID, climate catastrophes, political
1:30.3	unrest and economic pain, here it is,
1:33.2	permacrisis.
1:34.7	Collins Dictionary picks that as word of the year.
1:38.6	And tonight, we focus on people who are trying to break out of their crises from Iran to the United States.
1:44.6	They're fighting back and trying to find solutions.
1:47.5	Protests in the Islamic Republic fled up again today.
1:51.4	That's despite the Revolutionary Guards weekend deadline for getting off the streets.
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