Iran protests continue despite brutal crackdown

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Iran has executed a second protester related to the anti-government demonstrations gripping the nation. But even in the face of brutal punishments and possibly even a death sentence, the protests have continued. The regime vows to continue its crackdown. Christiane's first guest says that executions are a tactic of repression from an outdated playbook. Hadi Ghaemi is the Executive Director of the Centre for Human Rights in Iran. Next, we hear from Princeton professor Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat and chief nuclear negotiator. Also on today's show: Lizzie Gottlieb, director of Turn Every Page, which reveals the extraordinary, 50-year relationship between her father, editor Robert Gottlieb, and Robert Caro, one of America's most widely read political biographers. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amantu. Here's what's coming up.
0:10.0	Arrested and executed outrage as Iran hangs a second protester three months since Masa Amini was detained
0:17.6	Where does the movement go from here and what next for the country then we've had some real fights about sections that he's wanted to cut out.
0:26.0	It's not that I was trying to tear his bleeding heart out of his chest.
0:30.0	Turn every page, Director Lizzy Gottlieb on her new film exploring the remarkable
0:36.5	50-year relationship between two literary giants her father Robert Gottlieb and
0:42.4	the LBBJ Biographer Robert Caro.
0:45.0	Plus, put patients first.
0:48.0	Because at the end of the day, it may be their family member or their loved ones who are in a structure and in a hospital or
0:55.3	you are somewhere needing that medicine that is not available.
0:58.0	Drug shortages in America can hospitals cope.
1:01.2	Harry Srena Vassen speaks to emergency Dr. Mashed Abir. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:24.0	Iran has executed a second protester related to the anti-government demonstrations that are gripping the nation.
1:31.0	The man named as Magidresa Rachna Vard was accused of killing two members of the
1:36.2	security forces according to the government.
1:39.2	He was publicly hanged in the religious city of Machad early this morning.
1:43.4	It is the second known execution relating to this uprising.
1:47.8	On Thursday, Moise and Shekari was hanged.
1:51.0	These protests have been going on for three months now ever since
1:55.8	Marsa Amini died in the custody of Iran's morality police. She had been
2:00.6	apprehended for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly.
2:04.8	But even in the face of brutal punishments and possibly even a death sentence,
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