I'm John Batchew with my two colleagues, Bill Rajo and Jonathan Saya of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy,

who helped me to understand the Islamic Republic of Iran right now, certainly in terms of threat to Israel, to the region, to the world, and certainly to the United States.

At the same time, the Islamic regime domestically is broken, has been for quite some time.

And I learned what I can from a new book and a conversation with one of the authors, co-authors,

Nilu Tabrizzi, and her co-author, Fatimaima Jammapur for the sun after long nights.

To be very blunt about this, this is a book about the abuse of young women and older women by the Islamic regime,

systematic abuse for the balance of the revolutionary times since 79, although it's worse now in the 21st century,

I understand than it was in the late 20th. However, it does tell me there is something called

Gen Z in Iran. There's also millennials. And the Gen Z have been notable on the streets of major cities throughout Iran

since the murder of a young Kurdish woman by the morality police because they didn't like

the way she was covering her hair on the streets of Iran. That's why she was murdered. That's it.

Nothing more. There's no second line here.

The protests have been going on for years quieter now than they were a year or two ago.

I come to you, Janet, because you're very informed of this matter. Gen Z is what the authors say is heedless of the threats of the Basij, the volunteer militia,

the IRGC, the organized Superman, or the morality police.

Heedless when they charge them in the streets, when they ride their motorcycles by them and throw things,

heedless in terms of their

arrests and persecution and jailing and Evan prison. Is that accurate to your understanding that

Gen Z is a different cat? Absolutely it is. So speaking from my own experience, I'm a, I guess,

younger millennial, I'm on the border

of being Gen Z, and I was politically active when I was in Iran. And what was mostly attributed

to millennials at the time was the 2009 Green Movement. At the time, there was still hope of

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