I'm John Batsch, who is my colleague, Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs.

I report to you, Gregory, in a conversation with two young journalists, one in America, born in Tehran,

the other in America, because it was not safe for her to remain in Iran, have written a new book about the

last three years since the rising of the young people following the murder of a young Kurdish

woman by the morality police one day because they didn't like the way she had her hair arranged

in downtown Tehran. Since then, there have been repeated challenges all over the country to the morality police,

to the IRGC, especially to the besiege, and to the Ayatollah, so much so that I'm told by

Gen Z there and Gen Z here, having migrated away from the persecution, that Gen Z dislikes, distrust,

laughs at the Ayatollah and the IRGC. These are the young people up to about age 25, 28 now.

And that tells me, and I checked it again and again and again in this new book, talks about how they're

heedless and reckless in charging the police in the streets, how they don't fear arrest,

how they're extremely careful to be political all the time. Gen Z in Iran. What that means,

usually, if you're looking at history,

is that the bosses, the dictators, the Ayatollah, the president, the Majlis, all of that,

they've lost the future.

Is that a fair interpretation of what I'm hearing, Gregory?

Yes, it is.

And it does, in fact, mirror some of the crisis which occurred in 1978, 79 when I was

there as advisor to the Shah, who unfortunately was reluctant to, if you like, crack down

on the situation at that time because he didn't want to take away the future,

if you like, from the young people.

But today, the Gen Z and so on and the millennials are at the forefront of the change.

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