CUOMO Exchanges: Iran Uprising
The Chris Cuomo Project
Chris Cuomo
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🗓️ 8 January 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Chris Cuomo and welcome to a special episode of the Chris Cuomo project. |
| 0:12.4 | Now back in September, we heard the name Masa Amini. |
| 0:18.0 | Young woman was addressed the way the morality police, the authorities in Iran wanted her |
| 0:24.0 | to be. |
| 0:25.0 | There was an argument. |
| 0:26.1 | She was taken away. |
| 0:27.9 | She died. |
| 0:28.9 | Now, more specifically, it is believed she was killed. |
| 0:32.8 | Now sometimes a death, even if it's not unusual and people dying for bad reason in Iran, |
| 0:40.2 | at the hands of a despotic, religious, extremist power base, which is very different from the |
| 0:45.6 | people of Iran, don't throw them all in the same bucket. |
| 0:48.9 | It's not unusual, but sometimes one death is one too many. |
| 0:53.8 | And Amini's death, young, 22, I think, wound up setting up a |
| 0:58.8 | setting, a fire under other young women and men. |
| 1:04.1 | And now it's spreading through the population in Iran and the protests have been coming. |
| 1:07.9 | And now, showing who they really are, the people are out on the streets given their |
| 1:12.4 | blood for freedom. |
| 1:13.9 | And showing who they really are, okay? |
| 1:16.5 | The Islamist Republic there, which is really just a despotic, religious, extremist agency, |
| 1:23.0 | is showing its true colors by killing those who protest. |
| 1:27.9 | They say, crimes against God or whatever they call it, the irony, that in the name of God, |
| 1:33.3 | they kill people who have done nothing wrong but fight for their freedom. |
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