Deadly protests in Iran; divestment from fossil fuels
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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When political protesters were gunned down by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was it a victory or a defeat for President Trump? Also on this episode: the rude disruption of this year’s Harvard-Yale football classic in the fight over climate change. Should their massive endowments divest themselves of fossil fuel stocks?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again, I'm Arwen Alney. In a moment, we'll be talking about the disruption of that high-profile Ivy League football game to encourage divestment of holdings in fossil fuel companies. But first, we have an update on an extraordinary development in Iran. In the past two weeks, that country has seen the deadliest political unrest since the Islamic Revolution 40 years ago. |
| 0:24.5 | Word has seeped out slowly after an internet blackout by the regime. |
| 0:29.4 | Amnesty International says at least 200 people have been killed by Islamic Revolutionary Guards, called in to put down a protest. |
| 0:37.4 | At least 7,000 more have been detained. |
| 0:40.9 | In London, at the NATO meeting, President Trump was asked if he supported the protesters. |
| 0:46.1 | Does the United States support these protesters in Iran? |
| 0:50.0 | I don't want to comment on that, but the answer is no, but I don't want to comment on that. |
| 0:54.8 | Later on, the president tweeted that he did support the protesters after all. |
| 0:59.5 | Robert Malley was on President Obama's National Security Council, and he helped negotiate the Iran |
| 1:04.4 | nuclear deal that President Trump has withdrawn from. |
| 1:07.4 | Welcome back to our program. |
| 1:08.6 | Very good to be on. Thanks. |
| 1:10.0 | Let's first have you tell us what you know, in fact, has happened over the past couple of |
| 1:15.5 | weeks. How many people do you think have been killed and under what circumstances? |
| 1:18.4 | The truth is, we don't know, partly because of that internet blackout that you mentioned, |
| 1:22.1 | the really unprecedented blackout that turned off the lights in the country for several days. |
| 1:29.2 | What we have is reports by Amnesty International by the New York Times. It seems credible. Again, I know we, I don't have any |
| 1:35.5 | other independent estimates, but the assessments are that we're talking about, you know, at least |
| 1:40.2 | 200 people being killed. And if the New York Times is accurate, some of it was done in the |
| 1:45.5 | most brutal way possible. So it does seem, as you said at the beginning, it's not just one of the |
| 1:51.1 | most serious examples of unrest or experience of unrest that Iran has suffered since the revolution. |
| 1:57.0 | It's one of the most violent responses that it has undertaken as well. |
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