Democracy Now! 2023-08-23 Wednesday
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🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for August 23, 2023; “They Fired on Us Like Rain”: Saudis Accused of Killing Hundreds of Ethiopian Refugees at Border; “It’s Always About Oil”: CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is democracy now. |
| 0:18.6 | We found evidence that Saudi border guards have used explosive weapons and shot people |
| 0:23.4 | at close range in what appears to be a policy targeting migrants and asylum seekers, including |
| 0:29.8 | women and children. |
| 0:31.2 | Human rights watch is accusing Saudi Arabia of killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants |
| 0:36.6 | and asylum seekers who've tried to cross the Yemen Saudi border. |
| 0:40.5 | We'll get the latest. |
| 0:41.9 | Then we look at the 70th anniversary of the CIA and MI6 backed coup in Iran after Iran's |
| 0:48.9 | democratically elected prime minister, Muhammad Musadef, nationalized Iran's oil industry. |
| 0:56.1 | In 1953, the United States, together with Britain, participated in a coup in Iran that got |
| 1:03.1 | rid of Musadef. |
| 1:04.1 | Musadek and his government were swept from power in favour of General Zahideh, 300 killed |
| 1:10.1 | and 100 killed in his conservative estimate. |
| 1:12.8 | We'll speak to the Iranian filmmaker, Tagi Amarani, who directed the documentary, |
| 1:18.4 | Coup 53, as well as Erbond Everhamian, one of the leading historians of modern Iran. |
| 1:25.9 | All that and more, coming up. |
| 1:33.5 | Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the Warren Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:39.2 | In Greece, there remains at least 18 people believed to be asylum seekers were found in the |
| 1:44.1 | Dadia forest, where wildfires have been blazing for nearly a week. |
| 1:48.3 | The dense forest is near the Turkish border and northeastern Greece, making it a common |
| 1:52.4 | migration route for people fleeing Syria and other countries in the region with the hopes |
| 1:56.5 | of reaching Europe. |
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