Welcome back to the re-education.

Today's show is about the true costs of a nuclear agreement with Iran,

and why the best policy today is to support the Iranian people in their struggle to free themselves

from the grip of the clerical tyrant Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

My guest is the brilliant analyst Ali Rezanator.

What you're hearing is the sound of downtown Tehran at midnight on Tuesday.

The crowd is chanting death to Chaminé, Iran's octogenarian supreme leader,

who was said to be suffering from very ill health yet again.

The latest protests in Iranian cities were sparked by the death of Masa Amini,

after her arrest for improperly wearing the Islamic head covering known as the hijab.

She was arrested by the regime's morality police and never made it out of detention.

Amini's death has further angered many Iranians from all strata of society.

This outrage, you could say, is over-determined. To quote the mighty most death, why did

one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret. The million other straws underneath

it. Popular anger at the regime has been building really for

decades. Just in the last six years, Iranians have taken to the streets to protest the lack of

drinking water, the collapse of banks whose funds were looted by regime insiders, the brutality

of the regime's security services against peaceful protests, bus drivers, oil workers, and students

have all held strikes and other acts of civil disobedience. After the regime stole the 2009

presidential election, hundreds of thousands of Iranians poured into the streets. To this day,

the two moderate candidates in that election, Mir Hussein

Mosavi and Medi Karubi, remain under house arrest. But if you had to pick a beginning point to this

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